WHAT ARE WEB SEARCH ENGINES?
WHAT IS A WEB SEARCH ENGINE? The world wide web has endless amounts of information, and it would be impossible to access specific information without a database that organizes this information. A web search engine is a searchable database that looks for things throught the world wide web, e-mail, usenet, gopher, etc. To use an analogy, a web search engine is like the database of a library catalog. All you need is a couple of key words in order to conduct a search. A search engine will compile all the pages posted on the internet that either contains those key words or has topics related to it. There is a whole variety of web search engines that organize their information in different ways. Some access key information by key words and related topics, while others organize information by categories that are already given. There are different web search categories available to make your search simpler. These categories are: • web search guides to search or browse categorized topics; • spe
