Internet and Web Essentials: FYIs: 09_Successful_Search

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Search Features and Search Engines (4)
Knowing the features fo a search engine helps you formulate a useful search strategy.

Spiders Robots Indexing (5) ^new
A spider is a computer program that travels the Internet to locate Web documents and FTP resources. It indexes the documents in a database, which is then searched using a search engine (such as AltaVista or Excite). A spider can also be referred to as a robot or wanderer. Each search engine uses a spider to build its database.

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Basic Search Strategy: the Ten Steps
- "The following list provides a guideline for you to follow in formulating search requests, viewing search results, and modifying search results. These procedures can be followed for virtually any search request, from the simplest to the most complicated. For some search requests, you may not want or need to go through a formal search strategy. If you want to save time in the long run, however, it's a good idea to follow a strategy, especially when you're new to a particular search engine. "
http://www.webliminal.com/search/10steps.htm
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FINDING AND EVALUATING INFORMATION ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB
- Includes an application of the ten-step basic search strategy for a multi-faceted topic.
http://people.umw.edu/~ernie/presentations/search-eval.html
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Search Strategies for Search Engines
- "Knowing how search engine databases are indexed can help you select the most appropriate tool for your research needs, retrieve the most relevant information, and understand why results vary from one database to another."
http://www.webliminal.com/search/search-web05.html
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