This workshop reviews how to effectively utilize World Wide Web search services. The workshop covers all the major search services, including search engines, metacrawlers and directories. The majority of the workshop focuses on search engines since search engines are the tools people most often use to find information on the World Wide Web. Recommended Search Engines Below we recommend three search engines. To understand why we recommend these search engines, it is necessary to review how search engines work.
Search engines work by sending out robots known as spiders.
When you conduct a search on a search engine you are searching that search engine's database not the entire World Wide Web. A search engine matches a search to the webpages in its database. The search engine then lists the matching webpages according to relevancy, or importance. Search engines determine relevancy by analyzing the text of the matching webpages, and in the case of the better search engines, by also considering other factors such as the the size of the webpage or the number of links to the page. A search engine whose popularity is skyrocketing, Google surpassed its competitors this summer to become the search engine with the largest database .