Finding Information on the Internet

Remember that you have to evaluate the value of the Information you find on the Internet. The Internet is a great publishing environment, anyone can put a page up on the Internet. There is a lot of useless, incorrect, and false information on the Internet. You need to have a well-defined search plan if you hope to find the information you are looking for on the Internet. Once you find some information you have to evaluate the value of the information.

Definition: A search engine, in the context of the World Wide Web, is a program that seeks out, visits, and indexes URLs. The resulting index is searched for keywords or phrases entered by a user. The engine turns hyperlinks to sources whose description, title, or content match the words or phrase that people search for.

W ith an ordinary search engine or search tools (such as Infoseek, AltaVista, Yahoo!, Hotbot, or Excite), you submit keywords to a single database of web-pages owned by the search tool, and you get back a different display of documents from each search engine's unique database of web-pages. Results from submitting very comparable searches can differ widely, but also contain some of the same sites.

 

 

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