Tutorial Task 3....
The purpse of this tute was to reaserch about 'search engines'. We were given a list of questions which we had to discover the answers to and also to input our own ideas about the answers to the questions....
Q1: What is a search engine?
"A search engine or search service is a document retrieval system designed to help find information stored on a computer system, such as on the World Wide Web, inside a corporate or proprietary network, or in a personal computer" (Wikipedia.com)
Q2:How do search engines rank the stuff they find on the internet?
The search engine allows one to ask for content meeting specific criteria (typically those containing a given word or phrase) and retrieves a list of items that match those criteria. This list is often sorted with respect to some measure of relevance of the results.
Q3: Who, or what, makes one page (that you might get in your search results) more useful than another one, so that it is put at the top of your search results?
The results are listed on the page of your search results in form of relevance of search.
Q4: What are some of your favourite search engines? why do you like one more than others?
My favourite search engines are; Google, Ask Jeeves, Uijiko, AltaVista. Google just seems to have more results than the other search engines.
Q5: Can you find some current news stories about search engines? (for example, Google has been in the technology news a bit lately).
An article about Google launching the Google Custom Search Engine. It is a new way to bring tailored search to websites and blogs. In just minutes, anyone can use the Google search platform to create a search engine focused on any content they like – from Hollywood heartthrobs, to favorite sports team, to personal hobbies, and more.
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