Web Searching Tips and Techniques
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Overview
Directories vs. Search
Engines
Search Engine Components
Features
Searching Strategies
Searching
Alternatives
Access to Search Engines
Website Evaluation
& Citing
Search Engine Features
Search engines vary as to the:
- number of sites they index. Not even the biggest search engines come close to searching the entire web.
- parts of each website they index (varies from URL and title to
full-text of every web page).
- order of the results list. Some engines look at the number of pages that
link to the site and incorporate this "popularity" component into the
mix. Some accept payment for prominent placement in the list.
- frequency of updating or "refreshing" the
database.
- versatility and complexity of the interface.
See
Definitions of
Search Functions for a brief description of these features that add
versatility. The following compare many of these search engine
features:
Recommended Search Engines: Tables of Features
Part of a Searching
Tutorial from the UC Berkeley Library
Features
of Meta-Search engines
Meta-Search engines simultaneously search
multiple search engine databases.
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