Search engine

“ Most search-offs and wide-ranging studies continue tofind surprisingly little overlap among major search engines, so use more than one search engine as a general rule. The Internet is now being widely used for "serious" research, which means higher quality, more reliable information on the web. But, as with any research source, you must weigh the validity, accuracy, currency, and overall quality of the information before using it. Search engines rely on statistical interfaces, concept-based search mechanisms, or link analysis to return and rank hits ”

“ What about finding information on the internet? "The internet has provided researchers with a vast database of information. The problem for them is to find what they are seeking. Never has the information overload been so obvious as when one tries to find information on a topic by searching the internet. When one uses a search engine like Lycos or AltaVista or a directory like Yahoo!, it soon becomes clear that it can be very difficult to find valuable sites on a given topic. ”

“ The search engine index, catalog, or database, where everything the spider found is stored; The search engine software that actually sifts through everything in the index to find matches and then ranks or sorts them into a list of results or hits. Important points to consider about search engines: Spiders are programmed to return to websites on a regular basis, but the time interval varies widely from engine to engine. Monthly or better is considered "fresh." When you use a search engine, you are searching the index or database, not the web pages themselves. ”

“ The Justice of Search Engine Traffic Universities with a social justice or responsibility mission need to ensure their research is part of the public conversation, and assessing how effectively users access the repository content through search engines can be a demonstration of whether that is happening. Search engines form an integral layer through which information is accessed, in particular by novice searchers who are unfamiliar with the non-indexed web and are unlikely to find material not in search engines (Halavais, 2009, p. 41) . ”

“ The universe of content on the Web that could be indexed, in theory, by standard search engines is known as the "publicly indexable Web." The publicly indexable Web is limited to those pages that are accessible by following a link from another Web page that is recognized by a search engine. This limitation exists because online indexing techniques used by popular search engines and directories such as Yahoo, Lycos and AltaVista, are based on "spidering" technology, which finds sites to index by following links from site to site in a continuous search for new content. ”

“ The best approach may not be to type java into a search engine. Why? Because you'll probably get millions of hits, and the first ones may be to commercial sites trying to sell you something relating to Java and will undoubtedly also include other meanings of Java, such as Indonesia and coffee. If you are looking for general information on a topic, wikis, specialized (vertical) search engines, and virtual libraries are often better starting points for researching general or broad topics than big search engines.
The single biggest mistake searchers make is using the wrong search tool. ”

“ Megasearch sites simply store several search engines under one roof, but you have to do the searches one search engine at a time. They are becoming more sophisticated and better as time passes, serving as good entry points for finding and evaluating search engines. They are especially useful for locating international search engines. ”

“ Subject guide databases are always smaller than those of search engines, which means that the number of hits returned tends to be smaller as well. On the bright side, this means the results directories produce are often more relevant. For example, while a search engine typically indexes every page of a given website, a subject guide is more likely to provide a link only to the site's home page. For this reason, they lend themselves best to searching for information about a general subject, rather than for a specific piece of information. ”

“ Users can search text or browse headwords in a single file, in both DOST or the three SND files, or in all five files simultaneously (the default) . Users can perform keyword or phrase searches in the full entry for a word (the default) or limit searches to headwords, geographic label abbreviations, citations, illustrative quotations, works cited, authors cited, etymologies, senses, or dates. Users must be certain to read the Search the DSL page for information about the search engine’s handling of Boolean operators, right truncation, diacritics, special characters, and punctuation. ”

“ I think we need input from someone who understands HTML design. We want to make sure Google can find our pages. Maybe it would be possible to imbed data from the {{Author:Template}} in the HTML page in such a way that it would not be visible to a human user but would be to a search engine. If I remember correctly there was a way to imbed data in a header that old time web crawlers looked at even when they didn't look at very much else in a page. If some one has a personal Wiki maybe they to do some experiments to see how the Wiki search engine would do. ”

“ All the major search sites are still trying to be the "Swiss army knife" of search engines. Google, Yahoo, Live Search, Ask, and Exalead all competed hotly with each other to roll out new, better, faster, fancier, more powerful tools to do everything from search the contents of your computer in a heartbeat to letting you "fly" around the world with a bird's (or satellite's) eye view of the planet. ”

“ Because of the number of abbreviations, users will need frequent recourse to the list; because the list has to be accessed through the Table of Contents page, searchers should load the Abbreviations page in a separate browser tab. To obtain full details about a work, users must cut and paste from too many indexes; access would be measurably improved by conflating many of the separate lists, expanding abbreviations, and providing a basic search engine. Additions and corrections appear at Contento’s Mystery Short Fiction (http://www.philsp.com/homeville/msf/0start.htm) . ”

“ But researchers are now more likely to navigate to the content they want through use of a gateway service or search engine rather than by browsing through the tables of contents of individual journals. [23] And they expect that when they discover material that looks relevant to their work, they will be able to access the full text immediately without charge: one of the key frustrations they express is when that expectation is thwarted. A growing minority, as we have seen, also want to use a variety of tools to organise and manipulate the content they find. ”

“ The Past, Present, and Future of Search
"Search has become the most hotly contested field in the world of technology." [4]
Remember Northern Light? How about Excite, Galaxy, Lycos, HotBot, Magellan, InfoSpace, Go, Webcrawler, iWon, Netfind, or Webtop? If so, you've been searching the Internet a long time because many of these search engines are long gone and forgotten. However many changes in search and search engines have taken place in recent years, nothing has been quite so dramatic as what has occurred in the past two years with the appearance of the new Yahoo and Live Search engines. ”

“ All the major search engines now index well over a billion pages of information. The problem generally isn't lack of data but finding that one tiny needle in a virtual haystack of almost limitless size (much like looking for a needle in a stack of needles) .
Any serious researcher needs to know more about search engines than the average person using the Net for fun or even for very specialized searches associated with a hobby or perhaps a certain topic, e.g.,. cancer research. How do you learn the ins and outs of search? ”

“ The electronic versions correct several cross-references, provide some 150,000 hyperlinks between motifs, and offer keyword searching of a static text, but the brief citations are not linked to the full entries in the bibliography. If possible, users should opt for the online version because of its superior search interface; users of the CD-ROM who are unfamiliar with the Folio search engine must begin with the manual because the help screens are decidedly unhelpful. ”

“ While many smaller, focused search tools still exist, the sad fact is that, in terms of large, powerful, world-encompassing search engines, Internet searchers at this moment have fewer major search engines from which to choose. ”

“ However, this then becomes a game of catch-up, much like search engine optimisation practices, wherein those who are behaving badly (‘black hats’) are simply trying to stay one step ahead of the counter-measures.
10 See Fitzpatrick, Planned Obsolescence, pp. 27–30.
11 See Bhaskar, The Content Machine, pp. 131–4 for more on amplification in publishing.
12 See Osborne, ‘Why Open Access Makes No Sense’. ”

“ Since these divisions have changed markedly over the years, users must consult the contents list in respective volumes. Some entries are now briefly annotated. Two indexes: scholars; subjects (selective) . The CD-ROM, while cumulating the print version and offering basic search options, is hampered by a primitive search engine and less than user-friendly interface. Although the work is not comprehensive, its breadth makes it an important complement to the standard serial bibliographies and indexes in section G. Review: B. D. H. Miller, Review of English Studies ns 29.113 (1978) : 78–79. ”

“ By making the documents accessible by search engines through a standard protocol, you no longer even need to know the right URL for the thing you want. Just type a few choice words into Google and boom! back comes just the thing you wanted in a quarter of a second. ”

“ If you are new to using search engines, these are a great way to do a very broad search, while familiarizing yourself with the popular engines and how they respond. But metasearch engines inevitably lack the flexibility of individual search tools. ”

“ While using search engines may be problematic, in reality they are the only digital tool that most historians use, indeed there is a lack of widely used techniques that can be used to interrogate, summarize, and understand the large volumes of material that are available. ”

“ There should be means to develop a Google query, not that I have experimented to do so. — billinghurst sDrewth 03:31, 30 August 2011 (UTC) I think 'foo "Page:Southern Historical Society papers" site:en.wikisource.org/wiki/' would work just fine.--Doug. (talk • contribs) 12:29, 31 August 2011 (UTC) Sure, but that doesn't work in the main namespace (our presentation space) which was the scope of the question. — billinghurst sDrewth 22:22, 31 August 2011 (UTC) Ironically, Google has no problem reading proofread pages in the mainspace; it's just our own search engine that can't do it. ”

“ Publishers, libraries, aggregators and others, including the general search engines such as Google, have also invested heavily to ensure that researchers and others can easily discover and navigate their way around the huge volumes of research content that are now available online. ”

“ But I also think that the American people are smart and they know how to use search engines. While it may be frustrating a few people, we do not want to block information from the vast majority of people who would be able to figure out the context and use that information. For the minority of people that cannot figure it out, that might be frustrating, but at least they have an opportunity for access. ”

“ On the bright side, once there is a Wikipedia link on an article, that will be in "natural order", and therefore should be picked up by search engines, so the business isn't hopeless. It is reasonable to ask how articles will actually be found, and the answer is like "they should be created with at least four incoming wikilinks anyway, and in many cases with a link from Wikipedia ”

“ Search engines can help you search across the web, or you can target particular platforms or sites. When you find a work to reuse, the most important thing to do is provide proper attribution to the work’s licensor. ”

“ You point out that Google searches work irrespective of the ligatures on the page; I pointed out that internal search work on the actual text. We already have the best of both worlds. If we need better search engines, then eventually someone will build them. Yes, we did have this discussion, but I am now noting my objection to these templates here as part of the general discussion. If Wikisource is to ever introduce display ligatures as anything except for the actual intended character, I would expect that it would be done in the software itself rather than using templates. ”

“ It is important to note that many metasearch engines do not employ some of the best search engines, such as Google and Yahoo. Also, my biggest complaint about metasearch engines is that they perform shallow searches, usually only retrieving the top ten or so hits from a site, which is far too few to be comprehensive or truly representative of what is "out there." ”

“ You make sure the place is set up so that the robot can do its job without doing any real damage.
It’s exactly the same on the Web. (Except without the dust, crumbs, Jetsons, maids, tire treads, vases, coins, or blinds.) Robots (largely from search engines, but others come from spammers, offline readers, and who knows what else) are always crawling your site, leaving no nook or cranny unexplored, vacuuming up anything they can find. And unlike the household variety, you cannot simply unplug them—you really have to be sure to keep things clean. ”