Ch 5 Locating Information on the WWW

A search engine is a collection of computer programs that help us find information on the Web

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When searching for a word that has multiple meanings use the word "NOT" to remove many unwanted results. 

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Most search engines do not distinguish between uppercase and lowercase, even within quotation marks. 

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Browser Autocomplete, a feature that displays a list of your previous searches in a drop-down box to make your search more effiective and efficient cannot not be disabled.

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The tilde operator (~) is the fill in the blank operator. For example, amusement * will return pages with amusement and any other term(s) the Google search engine deems relevant. You can't use wildcards for parts of words. So for example, amusement p~ is invalid.

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Most search engines skip over image and video content when indexing a site

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You can use "related:www.youtube.com"  to find sites similar to YouTube.

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You can change the Number Of Results option to reduce total search time.

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To return the broadest results you should include "and" in your search query

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Information about Web pages to are visible to computer programs but aren't visible to humans visiting the page. 

• Meta data
• Meta tags
• Headers
• UML mark up language