A Search Engine Begin your study of this section with an understanding of what the search tools are and how they differ. A Web directory, such as Yahoo, is a database of URL addresses for the hyperlinks and the entire database is entered manually at the keyboard by people working for Yahoo.
Directories are man-made.
Robots, spiders, search engines are all software programs that may run independently. Explore the tutorials in the resource list, below. A Web author or webmaster needs to know how search engines, directories, spiders, and robots work in order to optimize META information for Web page position in the search engines. Below this paragraph is a search engine . To find information about time zones, just type time zones into the white space in front of the search button, below, then click using the mouse on the Search button, the rectangle with the word Search .