SECTION 3: USING SEARCH ENGINES EFFECTIVELY
TRUE SEARCH ENGINES
TRUE SEARCH ENGINES (such as AltaVista® (http://www.altavista.com) or HOTBOT® (http://www.hotbot.com):
- Are created by machines called spiders.
- Have bigger databases.
- Usually generate more hits or larger results.
- Search their own databases to match your terms to:
- 1st 20 words in a site
- 1st 100 words in a site
- any word in a site
How does this impact on searching?
- A True Search Engine database is likely to include millions and millions of Web sites. So, when you enter a word or phrase, you're likely to get LOTS of "hits".
- The database may contain all of a Web site -- every word. So, when you enter search words or phrases, the database can match your search terms to any words on a Web site in its database.
TUTORIAL MENU
