Search Engines

Keyword

An important search term that will appear in the results.

Indexer

Part of the search engine that organizes collected web pages into the database.

Concept Searching

Search engine determines what you mean and displays links to Web sites that relate to the keywords.

Spider

Search engine program that collects web pages over the Internet.

Database

A collection of web pages organized by the indexer to give the best results for a search.

Stemming

A feature of a search engine that displays other versions of keywords. Ex. Play, playing.

Specialty Search Engine

A search engine designed to focus on one particular topic.

Metasearch Engine

A search engine that steals from general search engines' databases in order to give you results.

Search Engine

A software program that enables the user to search the Internet using keywords.

Query

The complete grouping of search terms used by the search engine.

Results

The number of returns or hyperlinked Web sites addresses displayed based on your keyword Web search.