Further Reading
1. Choose the Best Search for Your Information Needs
A really useful table with suggestions for the best search engine for a variety of needs. On the left is a column
with your 'information need' and on the right is a column with a suitable search engine.
2. Site Search Tools Glossary
An excellent, concise and fairly up-to-date glossary of search engine terms. Cross-referenced internally and with external
links to other, useful documents, this is an excellent resource.
3. Meta Search Engines
Although almost a year old - a long time in Internet terms - this article is nevertheless a good and fairly thorough
introduction to meta search engines. It looks at how they work, how they differ from standard search engines, and some
of their strengths and weaknesses. It also includes a good set of examples to try.
4. How to Do Field Searching in Web Search Engines: A Field Trip
Learn how to search using fields. Have you ever wanted to search using criteria such as 'date', 'title', 'URL' or
'language'? This article explains which search engines offer these services and shows you how to use them. Although
not terribly recent, the information here is relevant and helpful.
5.
How Search Engines Rank Web Pages
This short article helps explain how search engines cope with our search queries, and how they rank the matching
results. It's a good introduction to what is actually a very complicated subject.
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