| 5-USING THE WEB | MODULE CONTENTS |
About Search Engines
Search engines are handy tools that help you find what you want on the Web. Each search engine uses software (called spiders or robots) to compile a database of pages found on the publicly accessible Web. When you enter a search, the search engine scans its own database to match your terms against terms in the pages of its database. Each search engine searches the part of the Web it has collected--not the whole Web--and each search engine has a somewhat different database. |
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Original (c) UNBLILT material 2003-2004 by the University of New Brunswick Libraries, Instruction Services Group. UNBLILT incorporates material from Searchpath, a tutorial developed by Western Michigan University 2001-2002, and from TILT, a tutorial developed by the Digital Information Literacy Office for the University of Texas System Digital Library 1998-2002. This material may be reproduced, distributed, or incorporated only subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the UNBLILT, Searchpath, and TILT Open Publication Licenses.