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Search Tools

Presentation by: Ceejay Rapal


Introduction
There are millions of websites on the World Wide
Web (WWW). How we can search a particular
web page out of billion of pages ???
Answer is !!!
Search Tools vs. Web Browser
Web Browser Search Tools

Specialized Websites that help you


Application Program that allows you
find what you are looking for on the
to view information on the web
web

You can install in your system Can’t install; access in the Internet

With the help of Web


Browser we can access
Search Tools
What Exactly Search Tools
Are?
• A search tools/web search tools is a software
system that is designed to search for information
on the World Wide Web.

Users Web Browser Search Engine World Wide Web

• It uses the keywords to search for documents that


relate to these keywords and then puts the result in
order of relevance to the topic that was searched for.
• The search results are generally presented in
a line of results often referred to as Search
Engine Results Pages (SERPs)
• If you want to understand it in simple terms:
Search engines are basically a web based
tool that enables the users to find information
on the World Wide Web
Search Engine Result Page (SERP)
Features of Search Tools
• Language Translation
• Update Information
• Quick search
• Relevant result
• Offers excellent spell checking, easy access to
dictionary definitions, integration of stock quotes,
street maps and more.
• Option to find more web pages, i.e. similar pages
• Each search tools has its own catalog or database of
collected web pages, so you will get different
results/hits by using different search engines.
Types of Search Tools

• CRAWLER based search tools


• DIRECTORIES based search tools
• HYBRID search tools
• META search tools
• SPECIALIZED search tools
Crawler Based Search Tools
• Crawler-based search tools…… What most of us
familiar… Google, Bing etc.
• They are called Crawler because the software produced
crawls the web like a spider, automatically updating and
adding new pages to its search index as it goes.
• Crawler-based search tools are good when you have a
specific search topic in mind and can be very efficient
in finding relevant information in this situation.
However, when the search topic is general, crawler-base
search engines may return hundreds of thousands of
irrelevant responses to simple search requests.
Continue…
Three major components of crawler based search tools are-
1. The Crawler (Spider)
The crawler/spider visits a web page, reads it, and then follows
links to other pages within the site. The spider will return to the site
on a regular basis, such as every month or every fifteen days, to look
for changes.
2. The Index
Everything the spider finds goes into the second part of the search
engine, the index. The index will contain a copy of every web page
that the spider finds. If a web page changes, then the index is updated
with new information.
3. The Search Engine Software
This is the software program that accepts the user-entered query,
interprets it, and shifts through the millions of pages recorded in the
index to find matches and ranks them in order of what it believes is
most relevant and presents them in a customizable manner to the user.
How Crawler Based Search Tools Works?
Continue…

World Wide
Web Downloader Crawler

Indexer

Database

Search
Interface Query Engine
(Web (Search Engine)
Browser)
Continue…
• Crawler-based search tool are constantly
searching the Internet for new web pages and
updating their database of information with
these new or altered pages.
• Examples of crawler-based search tools are:
Directories based Search Tools/ Human- Powered
Directory

• A ‘directory’ uses human editors who decide what


category the site belongs to; they place websites within
specific categories in the directories database. The human
editors comprehensively check the website and rank it,
based on the information they find, using a pre-defined set
of rules.
• There are two major directories at the time of writing:
Yahoo Directory (www.yahoo.com)
Open Directory (www.dmoz.org)
Note: Since late 2002 Yahoo has provided search results
using crawler-based technology as well as its own
directory.
DMOZ Directory
Yahoo! Directory
Hybrid Search Tools
• Hybrid search tools use a combination of both
crawler-based results and directory-based
results. More and more search tools these days
are moving to a hybrid-based model.
• Examples of hybrid search engines are:
Meta Search Tools
• Meta search tools take the results from all
the other search engines results, and
combine them into one large listing.
• Examples of Meta search engines include:
Dogpile, Metacrawler, Mamma etc.
Meta-Search Tools Architecture
Specialized Search Tools
Specialized search tools have been developed to cater for the
demands of niche areas (Specific areas). There are hundreds of
specialized search engines, including:
• Images (PicSearch.com)
• Shopping (shopping.yahoo.com)
• Flights / Travel (SkyScanner.net)
• Blogs (BlogPulse.com)
• People (Pipl.com)
• Forums (BoardReader.com)
• Music (SongBoxx.com)
• Audio & Video (PodScope.com, Blinkx.com)
• Resources (FileDigg.com [.ppt and .pdf])
• Private Search (DuckDuckGo.com)
Evaluation of Search Tools
1. Core Technology
2. Scalability
3. Connectors
4. Content Processing
5. Indexing
6. Query Functionality
7. Search Relevancy
8. Security
9. User Interface
10. Administration, Monitoring, and Maintenance
Welcome to hell.
1.)What was the two major of directories
at the time of writing?
2.)What keywords do when you search
the web?
3.)What is the three major components
of crawler based search tools
4.)Give at least three features of search
tools
5. )What is the name of the page that
shows search result.
6-10.) give the 5 types of search tools

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