As you work with different engines, you find that each one is useful in particular situations. A crawler is great when you're looking for specifics, and hierarchical engine works better when you need help narrowing a broad search. Choosing the right search engine to match your search is an ability learned over time, and with a little help from the Search Engine Resource Center and your friends at Cutler's Cove . The Internet Traffic Report monitors the flow of data around the world. It then displays a value between zero and 100.
Higher values indicate faster and more reliable connections.
The Internet started in 1969 and is a network of networks. The World Wide Web, was born in 1989, and is a system of interconnected Web pages that you can access via the Internet. In the past few years, the Web has become the most common way of using the Internet. Way big, real big, big, big, or to put numbers on it, at least a billion pages, and possibly reaching two billion pages sometime in 2001. There never will be a clear answer on the Web's size now that many pages are buried in Intranets behind firewalls.