By Grant Muranaka, MSW, Graduate Assistant, LEI Aloha Millions of people surf the web each day, utilizing search engines to help sift through the vast amount of information in cyberspace.
Search engines are useful tools that help users navigate through the web.
Furthermore, it is estimated that 7 to 14 percent of what is indexed, leads to dead links because the web pages are no longer present. With all of the information available in cyberspace, it is amazing that search engines are able to index even this small amount of information. They keep an index of this information in their database. They allow users to look at their indexed database for individual keywords, a combination of keywords, or listed directory. Search engines accomplish this task through one of two methods.