Seminar
On
Search Engines
Submitted To: Submitted By:
Dr. Rajeev Kumar Piyush khatri
Associate Professor BSC(IT) 6 th semester
CONTENT
Definition of Search Engines
History of Search Engines
Importance of Search Engines
Types of Search Engines
Crawler based search engines
Search directories or indexes
Hybrid search engines
Meta search engines
How to use Search Engines?
Conclusion
References
SEARCH ENGINE
A search engine is a web-based tool that enables users to
locate information on the World Wide Web. Popular
examples of search engines are Google, Yahoo!, and MSN
Search.
Search engines utilize automated software applications
(referred to as robots, bots, or spiders) that travel along the
Web, following links from page to page, site to site.
The information gathered by the spiders is used to create a
searchable index of the Web.
SOME EXAMPLE OF SEARCH ENGINE
HISTORY OF SEARCH ENGINES
The first tools used for searching in the internet was
Archie in 1990 by Alan Emtage.
In 1991, two new search programs Verconica and
Jughead.
In septermer 1993, W3Catalog was the first web
primitive search engines.
IMPORTANCE OF SEARCH ENGINES
Search engines are important because with over 8 billion
web pages available, it would be impossible to search for
the information that is specifically needed.
This is why search engines are used to filter the
information that is on the internet and transform it into
results that each individual can easily access and use
within the matter of seconds
TYPES OF SEARCH ENGINES:
• There are three main types of search engine tools:
• Crawler based search engines
• Search directories or indexes
• Hybrid search engines
• Meta search engines
CRAWLER BASED SEARCH ENGINES
These types of search engines use a "spider" or a
"crawler" to search the Internet. The crawler digs
through individual web pages, pulls out keywords and
then adds the pages to the search engine's
database. Google and Yahoo are examples of crawler
search engines.
Crawler-based search engines are good when you have a
specific search topic.
GOOGLE
Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
The homepage of Google has a button labeled as “I’m feeling
lucky ”. When a user types in a search and clicks on the button ,
the user is directly taken to the first search result.
Google has various “special features” which include weather, unit
conversion, currency conversion, time , calculator, maps etc.
YAHOO
Yahoo was founded by David Filo and Jerry
Yang
Yahoo operates a portal that provides the latest news,
entertainment, and sports information. The portal also
gives users access to other Yahoo services like Yahoo
Mail, Yahoo Maps, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo
Groups and Yahoo Messenger.
DIRECTORIES
Directories depend on human editors to create their
listings or the database. Yahoo Directory, Open
Directory and Look Smart are few examples.
Human-powered directories are good when you are
interested in a general topic of search
HYBRID SEARCH ENGINES
Hybrid search engines are search engines that use both
crawler based searches and directory searches to obtain
their results .
Example:- Yahoo.com- Google.com
META SEARCH ENGINE
• A meta search engine is a tool that helps to locate
information available via the WWW.
• It provide a single interface that enables users to search
many different search engines, indexes and databases.
• Thus Meta search engines are capable of searching
several search engine databases at once.
Eg:
• Dogpile - http://www.dogpile.com
• SavvySearch - http://www.search.com
• MetaCrawler -http://www.metacrawler.com
ADVANTAGES OF USING SEARCH
ENGINE
Easy to acquire different information from different
topics
determine specifically information
Sorting and adding value to the information
DISADVANTAGES OF USING SEARCH
ENGINE
Too many websites visitors
Too many websites leads/sales
• Using “or” between search phrase will search each
term separately.
or
• Placing words between quotation marks will search
for phrase between the quotes.
“”
• A “-” before a word will exclude that word from
search.
-
• A “+” before a word in a search will locate for
documents which definitely contain the word.
+
HOW TO USE SEARCH ENIGNES?
EXAMPLES
+BLACK+BLUE: The search results will contain
documents which contain the word black and the word
blue.
BLACK-BLUE: Those documents will be returned
which contain the word black but not the word blue.
“BLACK BLUE”: Those documents will be returned
which include the phrase black blue. (placed together).
BLACK OR BLUE: Those documents will be returned
which contain the term black or the term blue.
CONCLUSION
The usefulness of a search engine depends on the
relevance of the results it gives back.
While there may be millions of Web pages that include a
particular word or phrase, some pages may be more
relevant, popular, or authoritative than others.
Thanks
