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Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Search Engines @ 5:28 PM
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~Search Engines~

Free Text Searching
Searching for the occurrence of one or more words within a passage or page (E.g. CTRL + F)

Operations of a Search Engine


  • Web Directories- Where humans categorise a verbiage based on information supplied by the creator (E.g.Catherine McAuley could be added to Google using the "add URL Service" and categorised under "education")

  • Meta Search Engines- Sites that submit search criteria to multiple search engines and then compile the results

Meta Data


Data about data and includes all HTML tags and the specific Meta tags that hold page title and keyword summaries.