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After years of intensive research, we arrived at the conclusion that the best search engine varies depending on the users’ need. However, currently on the Internet, Google is elected as the most popular used search engine. Followed by Yahoo! Search.

So, Which One To Choose?

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The Crisis of The Information Age

The Most Popular Search Engine

A search engine is a computer program that electronically searches the World Wide Web to look for HTML documents. These programs are called Web Crawlers, Spiders, and Indexing Robots. These download and examine and draw out information that assists in describing those pages. It can be either looking at the title or examining the content. Then these HTML documents are stored in a database. When searching for Web sites, it is looked within the database, not the World Wide Web.
Directories
Some search engines contain directories used to access general information about a topic. It is like where you key in a subject heading to find general information about a topic. Examples are Sports, Arts, and Shopping. If the topic is not in the directory, then a full-text key word is necessary. The index is the database that the search engine has compiled.

The Two Types Of Search
Engines
There are many different search engines, but all can be classified in one of two categories. They are Single-Search Engines or Meta-Search Engines. Single-Search Engines search in their own database and all sites search in a different way. Google searches are based on popularity while AltaVista searches the full contents of HTML pages and allow users to search the entire Web or only parts of the Internet. Thus, when using Single-Search Engines, it might occur that you must use several search engines before finding what you want. Meta-Search Engines are different in that they submit the query to numerous search engines at once. The results also indicate which search engine it is from. Examples are Search.com, Dogpile, and MetaCrawler.
Disadvantages Of
All Search Engines
All search engines has some sort of disadvantage. Some are:
1. Too much irrelevant information
2. Built-in bias
3. Too much commercial information
4. Not all web pages are created equally
5. Search Engines only recognize text
6. The information is old
Ways for Quality Searches
ü Only search the part of the internet you need
ü Check spelling
ü Key most important information first
ü Use singular words, not plural
ü Key in lower case
ü Use nouns
ü Limit request to 3-4 words
ü Put particular phrase to search in quotation marks
ü Put in root of words, then put a * behind (e.g. with “coulour*”, will find colour, colourized, etc. Without, only colour)
ü Investigate advance search section of the search engine

How Do Search Engines REALLY Work

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