Abstract :
Searching is one
of the most used actions on the Internet. Search engines as an
instrument of searching, are very popular
and frequently used sites. This is the reason why webmasters and every ordinary user
on the Internet,
must have good knowledge about search
engines
and searching.
Webmasters use major
search engines
for submitting their sites
on it, and for searching. Ordinary users
use major search
engines primarily for searching, and
sometimes for submitting their homepages or small sites.
Why search engines are so popular? If you are ordinary user and you
want to find some texts or pictures about certain theme, first
thing you will do is to visit search
engine to
get
some
good URLs about certain
theme.
This will happen every time you
need
some information
or data about any theme.
If you are webmaster, you
will also need some information while preparing
site
for the Web,
and you will also
use
search engines. Then,
when you finish with it, you
must submit your
URL to many search engines.
After
that you will check your URL ranking on every search engine...
There are also hot news on
every major search engine,
many other interesting contents... All of this shortly describes why search engines are so popular.
As a user at novice level you
must learn how to use search engines for searching the Internet.
You must know that there are two ways
of searching:
by
using user's query or by using
categories. If you
have keywords
or phrase that best
describes the theme you need, you
should use user's query.
But if you need
some theme, and you don't have keywords
or phrase, you
should use categories.
If you use
user's query, you
should type keyword or phrase in
this form and click on "search". Then you will get
search results, and you can choose URL, which
is the best in your
opinion. If you use categories, you should
click on category that
best describes the theme you
need.
You will then get subcategories and
should choose some
subcategory that
best describes the theme you
are
after. Repeat
this action until you find
group of URLs,
which
content is related
with theme you want.
As a webmaster you must submit your URL to all major search engines.
This is
the way to promote your site. You
could get many visits from
major
search engines, if you
have
a good ranking of your
URL.
We
made page with URLs which
takes you to submit forms
of major search engines. You
will not lose your valuable
time on searching for
these forms, all of them are
on one page.
When
people mention the term "search
engine", it
is often used generically to describe both crawler-based
search engines and
human-powered directories. In fact,
these two
types of search engines gather
their
listings in radically different ways
and therefore are inherently different.
Crawler-based search engines, such as Google, All The Web and AltaVista,
create their
listings automatically by using a piece of
software to
“crawl” or
“spider” the web and
then
index what it finds to build the search base.
Web
page
changes can be dynamically caught
by
crawler- based
search engines and will affect how these web
pages get listed
in the search results.
Crawler-based search engines
are good
when you have a specific
search
topic in mind and can be very efficient in finding relevant information
in this situation. However,
when the search
topic is general, crawler-base search engines
may
return hundreds of thousands of irrelevant responses
to simple search requests,
including lengthy documents in
which your keyword
appears
only
once.
Human-powered directories, such as the Yahoo directory, Open Directory and LookSmart, depend on human
editors to create
their
listings. Typically,
webmasters submit a short description to the directory for their
websites, or editors
write one for the sites
they
review, and these
manually edited
descriptions
will form the search base. Therefore,
changes made to individual
web pages will
have no effect
on how these pages get listed
in the search
results.
Human-powered
directories are
good when you
are
interested in a general topic
of search. In this
situation, a directory can guide and help you
narrow your
search and get
refined results. Therefore,
search
results found in a human-powered
directory are usually more relevant
to the search topic and more
accurate. However, this is
not an efficient
way
to find information when a specific search topic is in mind.
Meta-search
engines, such as Dogpile,
Mamma, and Metacrawler,
transmit user-supplied keywords
simultaneously to several individual
search
engines to actually carry out
the
search. Search results
returned from all the search engines can be
integrated, duplicates can be
eliminated
and additional features such as
clustering by subjects within
the search results
can be
implemented by meta-search
engines.
Meta-search engines are good for saving time by searching only in
one place and sparing the
need to use and learn several separate
search
engines. "But since meta-search engines
do not allow for input of
many search
variables, their best use is to find
hits on obscure items or to see if something can
be
found using the Internet."
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