Search+Engines

Advantages- More hits, easier to find information sometimes Disadvantages- less relevance to your subject searched, rankings might be biased

Search Engines are edited by spiders and crawlers which go all over the web and update sites and collaborate information. This is much different from a Search Directory that is edited and put together by humans. Also, search engine results are influenced by advertisers,, the frequency of terms, and the popularity of the page. Search engines allow for misspellings, return with results on keywords that are close together, finds other variations, and finds similar words or phrases. (Reference: in class powerpoint 11-5-07)

Search Engines [|www.google.com] [|www.dogpile.com] [|www.search.com] [|www.ask.com] [|www.hotbot.com]

A great search engine for kids is [|http://www.yahooligans.com]. It is made by yahoo and it is made just for kids. It gives them tons of useful information for any subject that a child would need to know. They also have educational games that a child could also benefit from.

With search engines, you do not get to look at every website, but you look at a lot more than you would if you were using a search directory. People use search engine more than they use directories because they are normally able to find more information. If they were to use a search directory, then sometimes they would not be able to findany information, since they are edited by people.

Search Engines are an effective way for students to research information on subjects they do not understand or for research projects or just for common knowledge. There are hundreds of search engines on the internet, just figuring out which one to use is the hard part. You can retrieve artcles, books, and many different websites on the subject that interests you. They provide many different research tools and information that can be used in the classroom. The three major search engines are [|www.google.com], [|www.msn.com], and [|www.yahoo.com].

Google, the most popular search engine has several hundred million hits each day. Their mission statement is to "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful".