Activity 4: Searching the Internet

Advantages of search engines

-Indexes of search engines are usually vast, representing significant portions of the Internet, offering a wide variety and quantity of information resources indexes of search engines are usually vast, representing significant portions of the Internet, offering a wide variety and quantity of information resources. Enables us to precisely describe the information that we seek.

Disadvantages of search engines

-Search phrases produce list after list of irrelevant web pages. Using search engines does involve a learning curve. Many beginning Internet users, because of these disadvantages, become discouraged and frustrated.

Compare and Contrast Individual and Search Meta engines

-Individual search engines compile their own searchable databases on the web, while Meta searchers do not compile databases. Instead, they search the databases of multiple sets of individual engines simultaneously.

When is it appropriate to use search engine? When is it appropriate to use a search/subject directory?

-It is appropriate to use search engine when you are to search for something in the internet. You don’t have to waste time since it is a direct search where you can have multiple lists of what you want to search about. You have different options as well as different choices of what search engine you would like to use. For subject directory, they are used when you want to know more on broad-based subjects.

What is an invincible web or deep web?

- refers to World Wide Web content that is not part of the Surface Web, which is indexed by standard search engines.

How to find invincible web?

-You can find searchable databases containing invincible WebPages in the course of routine searching in most general web directories.

Why are these web pages not available in search engines or subject directories?

-Because most search engines were originally designed to focus on text. So pages that just have photos, graphics files, sound or video and no text are often missed altogether by the search engines.