Lecture Summary
- Search engines are web-based applications that crawl the Internet indexing websites. Examples of search engines are Google, Yahoo, Altivista and Dogpile.
- Common problems with search engines are that they return too many results, it is hard to filter through searchers and information for relevancy, many links are broken and there are many useless websites.
- Common search engines are Google, Ask Jeeves, Alltheweb, Escite, Dogpile and Katoo.
- There are different ways to search a query in a search engine. Some examples are keyword search, phrase search, Boolean search and advance engine options search.
- Tips to find exactly what you are looking for are using multiple search engines, using the help functions provided to understand the search engine you are using, use more than one word when searching with keyword searches and try to guess the location.
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