Applications in Education Search Engine Strategies Search engines on the Internet are software programs that manage a database of Web sites. Search engines practice different methods of retrieving the sites you want to locate. Click here to see the comparison on Greg Notess' search engine table. This refers to the way in which search engines perform multiple word searches.
Phrase searches contain quotation marks to group a set of words into one object.
Boolean and Phrase Searching You may want to search for a page that is guaranteed to contain more than one important word in the document. META engines , such as Webcrawler and Dogpile, perform a parallel search on the Web databases of other search engines. Dogpile, for example, will query results from Yahoo, Lycos, PlanetSearch, Infoseek, Alta Vista, and many others. META engines are useful for searches on broad topics, but specifc ideas can be difficult to sort. META searches are only permitted to retrieve a limited number of results from each subsequent engine due to time limits.