| A | B |
|---|
| Individual search engine | does not compile results |
| Meta search engine | Compiles results |
| Subject Directories | Searchable databases |
| Keyword | Unique phrases or terms (search string). |
| Field | A search parameter, such as a title, genre, date of publication |
| Boolean | Uses operators with keywords to narrow search parameters |
| Miscellaneous | A search method that contains different language support and phone book. |
| Phone book | uses phone numbers to search for locations and |
| Spell checker | gives suggestions if the word keyed for the search |
| Different Language support | searches for words in different |
| Math | solves basic math problems and converts |
| URL | Website address |
| Domain Name | contains server/host name |
| HTTP | Hypertext transfer protocol |
| FTP | File transfer protocol |
| com | commercial business suffix |
| edu | education suffix |
| mil | military suffix |
| gov | government suffix |
| www | world wide web |
