Basic Computer Notions Web searching

Next Introduction Quality control Quality control (cont'd) Subject directories Subject directories (cont'd) 6 of 19 Search engines (cont'd) Effective searching Planning a search Planning a search (cont'd) Planning a search (cont'd) Planning a search (cont'd) Using the tools Know the engines Common methods Relevance ranking Keep track of your results Further information Safe surfing

Search engines Screenshot of Alta Vista from Digital, 1996 October

Search engines provide the ability to search for text strings or words within large collections of text and addresses.
These collections are automatically generated by robots (or spiders) which mechanically traverse the Web and collect text.
The text is automatically converted by an indexing engine to a format which can be efficiently processed by a search engine.

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