Getting Started
Search engines search electronically whereas most search directories use human editors to exclude irrelevant sites and include beneficial ones. Wikis invite contributers to write and edit articles mostly without authoriship. Understanding the pluses and minuses of each of these search tools will help you to determine when they are appropriate to use for particular high school research assignments.
Explore information in the Search Engines, Search Directories, and Wiki boxes and read the following tips.
Tips For Using Search Engines:
Tips For Using Search Directories:
Popular search engines such as Google and Yahoo use complex computer programs to index websites, and these enormous indexes can then be searched using keywords. Search engines rank pages depending on how many times a keyword appears on a webpage (relevancy) and where a keyword appears on the page (proximity). Google also uses popularity ranking, taking into account how many times searchers link to a page when using a certain keyword. It’s important to remember that search engines search electronically whereas most search directories use human editors to exclude irrelevant sites and include beneficial ones. Search engines are businesses that rely on ad revenue, so be aware that some sites show up because they have paid for a high ranking not because they have the information you need.
Search directories
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