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Internet Principle of Operation - Coggle Diagram
Internet Principle of Operation
Web Searching/ Search Tool
program available on the Internet to help you find information among the millions of documents on the Web
to search for specific information on the Web
Two types of search tool/web searching
Search engine
Subject directory
Search engine
a search tool that finds websites, webpages, images, video, news, maps and other information related to a specific topic
requires the users o enter a word or phrase which is known as
keyword
uses the keyword 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
Google
Yahoo
Bing
Ask
Baidu
Yandex
Subject Directory
search tool that classifies webpages in an organized set of categories and subcategories
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
Examples
Google Directory
Yahoo! Directory
Looksmart Directory
Best of the Web Directory
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