Peirce College Information Literacy Tutorial
Introduction | Module 1:Selecting | Module 2: Searching | Module 3: Evaluating | Glossary | FAQ | Site Map | Library Home
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Millions of Web pages are available to you, but how do you find the best ones for your research? Many libraries review and organize Web pages, choosing only the best. Starting with the Library's home page will help you quickly locate quality sites. To find other information on the Web you will need to use a search engine. When you use a search engine you are looking for terms that appear on pages in the search engine's database, rather than searching the Web in real time. No single search engine indexes the entire web. So if you use only your favorite search engine, you could be missing important results. |
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You've probably used search engines like Google, HotBot or AltaVista.
The thing we call a search engine is actually a set of programs. One program, called a robot, periodically moves through the Web following links and capturing information about Web pages. Another part of the search engine builds indexes from the information found by the robot.
Search engines allow users to search, display and organize information found in the index. Some options and interfaces vary between search engines but most of the basic ideas for searching them are the same.