Search Engines for the World Wide Web

Search Engines for the World Wide Web

Author: Alfred Glossbrenner

Publisher: Peachpit Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 347

ISBN-13: 020173401X

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Demonstrates successful search strategies while analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of Yahoo!, AltaVista, Excite, Infoseek, Lycos, and Hot-Bot, describing advanced features and query terminology for each.


An Introduction to Search Engines and Web Navigation

An Introduction to Search Engines and Web Navigation

Author: Mark Levene

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2011-01-14

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 1118060342

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This book is a second edition, updated and expanded to explain the technologies that help us find information on the web. Search engines and web navigation tools have become ubiquitous in our day to day use of the web as an information source, a tool for commercial transactions and a social computing tool. Moreover, through the mobile web we have access to the web's services when we are on the move. This book demystifies the tools that we use when interacting with the web, and gives the reader a detailed overview of where we are and where we are going in terms of search engine and web navigation technologies.


Understanding Search Engines

Understanding Search Engines

Author: Dirk Lewandowski

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-03-07

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 3031227891

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This book provides a broad introduction to search engines by integrating five different perspectives on Web search and search engines that are usually dealt with separately: the technical perspective, the user perspective, the internet-based research perspective, the economic perspective, and the societal perspective. After a general introduction to the topic, two foundational chapters present how search tools can cover the Web’s content and how search engines achieve this by crawling and processing the found documents. The next chapter on user behavior covers how people phrase their search queries and interact with search engines. This knowledge builds the foundation for describing how results are ranked and presented. The following three chapters then deal with the economic side of search engines, i.e., Google and the search engine market, search engine optimization (SEO), and the intermingling of organic and sponsored search results. Next, the chapter on search skills presents techniques for improving searches through advanced search interfaces and commands. Following that, the Deep Web and how its content can be accessed is explained. The two subsequent chapters cover ways to improve the quality of search results, while the next chapter describes how to access the Deep Web. Last but not least, the following chapter deals with the societal role of search engines before the final chapter concludes the book with an outlook on the future of Web search. With this book, students and professionals in disciplines like computer science, online marketing, or library and information science will learn how search engines work, what their main shortcomings are at present, and what prospects there are for their further development. The different views presented will help them to understand not only the basic technologies but also the implications the current implementations have concerning economic exploitation and societal impact.


Invisible Search and Online Search Engines

Invisible Search and Online Search Engines

Author: Jutta Haider

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-03-04

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 0429828012

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Invisible Search and Online Search Engines considers the use of search engines in contemporary everyday life and the challenges this poses for media and information literacy. Looking for mediated information is mostly done online and arbitrated by the various tools and devices that people carry with them on a daily basis. Because of this, search engines have a significant impact on the structure of our lives, and personal and public memories. Haider and Sundin consider what this means for society, whilst also uniting research on information retrieval with research on how people actually look for and encounter information. Search engines are now one of society’s key infrastructures for knowing and becoming informed. While their use is dispersed across myriads of social practices, where they have acquired close to naturalised positions, they are commercially and technically centralised. Arguing that search, searching, and search engines have become so widely used that we have stopped noticing them, Haider and Sundin consider what it means to be so reliant on this all-encompassing and increasingly invisible information infrastructure. Invisible Search and Online Search Engines is the first book to approach search and search engines from a perspective that combines insights from the technical expertise of information science research with a social science and humanities approach. As such, the book should be essential reading for academics, researchers, and students working on and studying information science, library and information science (LIS), media studies, journalism, digital cultures, and educational sciences.


Next Generation Search Engines: Advanced Models for Information Retrieval

Next Generation Search Engines: Advanced Models for Information Retrieval

Author: Jouis, Christophe

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2012-03-31

Total Pages: 560

ISBN-13: 1466603313

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Recent technological progress in computer science, Web technologies, and the constantly evolving information available on the Internet has drastically changed the landscape of search and access to information. Current search engines employ advanced techniques involving machine learning, social networks, and semantic analysis. Next Generation Search Engines: Advanced Models for Information Retrieval is intended for scientists and decision-makers who wish to gain working knowledge about search in order to evaluate available solutions and to dialogue with software and data providers. The book aims to provide readers with a better idea of the new trends in applied research.


A Subject Guide to Quality Web Sites

A Subject Guide to Quality Web Sites

Author: Paul R. Burden

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 2010-07-17

Total Pages: 779

ISBN-13: 0810876957

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The Web is always moving, always changing. As some Web sites come, others go, but the most effective sites have been well established. A Subject Guide to Quality Web Sites provides a list of key web sites in various disciplines that will assist researchers with a solid starting point for their queries. The sites included in this collection are stable and have librarian tested high-quality information: the most important attribute information can have.


Web Search Engine Research

Web Search Engine Research

Author: Dirk Lewandowski

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2012-04-19

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1780526369

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Provides an understanding of Web search engines from the unique perspective of Library and Information Science. This book explores a range of topics including retrieval effectiveness, user satisfaction, the evaluation of search interfaces, the impact of search on society, and the influence of search engine optimization (SEO) on results quality.


Authoritative Guide to Web Search Engines

Authoritative Guide to Web Search Engines

Author: Susan Maze

Publisher: Neal-Schuman Publishers

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13:

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Looks at Webcrawler, Lycos, Infoseek, Open Text, Alta Vista, Excite, Hot Bot. How they add documents, their interfaces and searching techniques.


Creating Web Sites: The Missing Manual

Creating Web Sites: The Missing Manual

Author: Matthew MacDonald

Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

Published: 2005-10-26

Total Pages: 562

ISBN-13: 1491909560

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Think you have to be a technical wizard to build a great web site? Think again. For anyone who wants to create an engaging web site--for either personal or business purposes--Creating Web Sites: The Missing Manual demystifies the process and provides tools, techniques, and expert guidance for developing a professional and reliable web presence. Like every Missing Manual, you can count on Creating Web Sites: The Missing Manual to be entertaining and insightful and complete with all the vital information, clear-headed advice, and detailed instructions you need to master the task at hand. Author Matthew MacDonald teaches you the fundamentals of creating, maintaining, and updating an effective, attractive, and visitor-friendly web site--from scratch or from an existing site that's a little too simple or flat for your liking. Creating Web Sites: The Missing Manual doesn't only cover how to create a well-designed, appealing, smart web site that is thoroughly up to date and brimming with the latest features. It also covers why it's worth the effort by explaining the rationale for creating a site in the first place and discussing what makes a given web site particularly aesthetic, dynamic, and powerful. It further helps you determine your needs and goals and make well informed design and content decisions. Creating Web Sites: The Missing Manual includes a basic primer on HTML, working with JavaScript, and incorporating services like Paypal's shopping cart, Amazon's associate program, and Google AdSense and AdWords. It delivers advanced tricks for formatting, graphics, audio and video, as well as Flash animation and dynamic content. And you'll learn how to identify and connect with your site's audience through forms, forums, meta tags, and search engines. This isn't just another dry, uninspired book on how to create a web site. Creating Web Sites: The Missing Manual is a witty and intelligent guide for all of you who are ready to make your ideas and vision a web reality.


Web Information Systems and Technologies

Web Information Systems and Technologies

Author: Joaquim Filipe

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-01-15

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 364228082X

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This book contains the thoroughly refereed and revised best papers from the 7th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies, WEBIST 2011, held in Nordwijkerhout, The Netherlands, in May 2011, organized by the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC), in collaboration with ACM SIGMIS and co-sponsored by the Workflow Management Coalition (WFMC). The 12 papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 156 submissions. The papers are grouped into tow parts on "Internet Technology" and "Web Interfaces and Applications". In addition, the three invited presentations are also included.