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3.1.5 SEARCH TOOLS - Coggle Diagram
3.1.5
SEARCH TOOLS
Subject directory
Subject directory is a search tool that classifies webpages in
an organized set of categories and subcategories.
User can locate webpage or information by clicking the links through different levels, moving from the general to the specific.
Directories are useful for finding information on a topic
when you don’t have precise ideas of what you need.
When click on the category link, the subject directory
displays a list of subcategory links
Examples of subject directory: Google Directory, Yahoo! Directory, Looksmart Directory, Best of the Web Directory, dmoz
Differences of web searching
Search Engine
Find information related
to a specific topic.
User knows what to
search by using keywords.
Subject Directory
Classifies Web pages in an organized set of categories and subcategories.
useful for finding information on a topic when you don’t have precise ideas of what you need.
Two types of search tools or web searching
i. Search engine
Search engine is a search tool that finds websites, webpages, images, video, news, maps and other information related to a specific topic.
Requires the users to enter a word or phrase which is
known as keyword.
it uses the keywords to search for documents that relates to these key words and then put the results (hits) in order of relevance to the topic that was searched for.
examples of search engine: Google, Yahoo!, Bing, Baidu, DuckDuckGO, Yandex, AoI, ECOSIA, ASK, INTERNET ARCHIVE
ii. subject directory
Web Searching
Web searching or search tool is a program available on the Internet to help you find information among the
millions of documents on the Web
People use search tools to search for specific information
on the Web