SEARCH ENGINE

Web site that allows users to search for keywords on Web pages . Every search engine has its own strategy for collecting data, so it's no wonder that one particular search produces different results on different search engines.

WWW sites that allow users to type in a word or phrase and then search for other WWW sites linked to that word or phrase. A number of search and metasearch links can be found at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/busn2311/helpers1.htm#General . Jensen still goes to Yahoo first at http://www.yahoo.com/ More...

A tool or program which allows keyword searching for relevant sites or information on the Internet. General and topic-specific search engines are prevalent today, for example, Education World, WebCrawler, Infoseek, Lycos, and Yahoo are examples of search engines.

A search engine is a program that searches documents (i.e. web pages,which are HTML documents) for specified keywords and returns the list of documents.A search engine has two parts,a spider and an indexer.The spider is the program that fetches the documents,and the indexer reads the documents and creates an index based on the words or ideas contained in each document.

A WWW site that serves as an index to other sites on the Web. Some of the more popular search engines are "Starting Point", "Yahoo", and "Lycos". Search engines are relatively easy to use. Normally, they contain references to common subject areas that you can point-and-click to connect to other links, that connect to other links, and so on. They also give you the opportunity to type in key words (by themselves, or in combination) to begin a search. Click here for an example of how a search works.