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Search Engines and Search Directories - (copy)

Please use these vocabulary activities to help you internalize the vocabulary for this lesson.

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World Wide Weba "web" of computes connected together using hypertext documents to view its contents.
web pagea text document formatted with hypertext code
databaseAn organized collection of web pages that are categorized according to topics
Search DirectoriesDatabases that have been created by humans and are used to organize web sites into categories
Search EnginesA huge collections of web pages that have been assembled automatically by machines.
Crawlersrobot programs that go out and “crawl” the internet for new web pages, come back and index them in the search engine category.
Spidersanother word for crawler-robot that goes out and captures information for web pages, returns for categorizing them.
Hitssearch results presented in a list
Querya search
Browserprogram used to view hypertext pages on the World wide Web


Adjunct Professor
Lone Star College / Houston Community College
Houston, TX

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