Instructions:
Use search engines on the Internet to research and respond to the following questions.
Provide a short answer to each of the questions
Use a different search engine for each question
Include the name of the search engine used to locate the information and the website where the information was located
A. How many search engines are available on the Internet?
B. What is the difference between a General Search engine and a Meta Search Engine?
C. What does the term ‘pay for placement’ mean on the Internet and what impact does/will this have on the use of search engines?
D. What does the term ‘natural language questions’ mean for search engine usage?
E. Define the following terms
Search Engine
Index
Directory Searches
Spider
Relevancy
F. Locate three websites that provide an HTML Reference or HTML tutorial. List the URLs of the website that you locate. Keep this list handy for the HTML Lab.
Please respond to these questions on a Word document. Print out the Word Document and turn it on when indicated on the course syllabus.