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LESSON OBJECTIVE

INTERNET SEARCH
CHAPTER -5
INTERNET SEARCH
WHAT IS INTERNET

• The Internet is a vast network that


connects computers all over the world.
Through the Internet, people can share
information and communicate from
anywhere with an Internet connection
HOW IS DOES SEARCHING WORK

• The Internet consists of millions of private/public/academic/business


and government networks having local to global scope. It has billions of
web pages.
• As compared to searching a database, the search for a document
contents is more terrifying since is not structured.
• We need the services of the Search Engines for finding the documents
on the Internet.
• When a user enters a query into a search engine, the engine examines
it as index and provides a list of best-matching web pages according to
its ranking criteria.
SEARCH ENGINE

• A search engine is a software system that is


designed to carry out web searches.
• It is a web-based tool that enables users to
locate information on the World Wide Web.
Popular examples of search engines are Google,
Yahoo, MSN etc
SEARCH ENGINE

• Generally accessed with browsers.


• There are millions of pages and billions of words on
the Web and more are being added daily.
• A Search engine can be defined as a tool to search
these disorganized sources of information available
on the Internet.
SEARCH ENGINE

• Just type in the data to be searched, the space provided


at the search engine’s current page, and click search.
• The result will be displayed with information
corresponding to the search in the form of a list of web-
sites that match that word or phrase.
• A search engine is a critical tool in finding information,
products and businesses on the web.
TYPES OF SEARCH ENGINE:

•Primary Search Engines:


• Web Directory:
•Meta Search Engines:
TYPES OF SEARCH ENGINES

Primary Search Engines


• These types of search engines use a "spider" or a "crawler"
to search the Internet.
• The crawler digs through individual web pages, pulls out
keywords and then adds the pages to the search engine's
database.
• Google and AltaVista are examples of crawler search
engines.
TYPES OF SEARCH ENGINES

Web directories
• Web directories organize information into categories
and subcategories.
• Directories differ from search engines in the way they
organize information.
• Yahoo is an example of Web-directory.
TYPES OF SEARCH ENGINES

Meta Search Engines


• Such search engines pass your queries to many
search engines and web directories and present
summarized results to the users.
• Some of the examples of meta search engines are –
Dogpile, Infind, Metacrawler, Metafind and Metasearch
• The Search requested travels to the Search Engine’s WebSite.
• There, the query terms are matched against the index terms in the site’s
database.
• The matching references are returned to the computer as result and displayed on
the screen.
• Each result shows the title of the document.
• By clicking the title, link to the document can be made.
• Under the title is a brief description consisting of few lines of text in the
document.
• Under the brief explanation, is the URL or web address of the document.
DIFFERENT SEARCH ENGINES
TYPES OF ECOMMERCE
E-BUSINESS

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