Internet comm/research Chap 3- Searching the Web
Surface Web
(open internet) web sites freely accessible to all users over the internet
yellow pages directory
A Web site that provides information about businesses, such as a description, address, phone number, Web site address, and reviews.
white pages directory
A Web site you use to locate people, and obtain their postal address, phone number, and email address.
Boolean Operators
A character, word, or symbol that focuses a web search. Also called a search operator.
Wiki
A collaborative website where you and your colleagues can modify and publish content on a webpage.
Stop word
A common word, such as "and," "the," "it," or "by" that most search engines (even those that claim to be full-text indexed search engines) omit from their databases when they store information about Web pages.
Primary source
A document or physical object which was written or created during the time under study.
Hit
A list of matched results from an Internet search.
Bot
A program that can do things without the user of the computer having to give it instructions. Many bots are malware as they are installed without people's permission and can be controlled over the internet and used to send spam or steal data. Also known as web robots.
search query
A question that defines the information you seek when using a search engine
metasearch engine
A search engine, such as Dogpile, that searches other search engines rather than individual websites.
Open-ended search
A search query that asks a general or broad question.
breadcrumb trail
A step in the path you follow to display a webpage.
Hashtag
A word(s) preceded by a # symbol that describes or categorizes a post.
Search results list
Containing the URL, title and description of and links to Web pages deemed to be most relevant to keywords.
Meta tag keywords
Descriptive keywords coded into the Web page's HTML that are readable by the spider but invisible to user.
Index
In Access, a database object that is created based on a field or combination of fields. Also, a field property that keeps track of the order of the values in the field, and a list that relates field values to the records that contain those values.
search engine
In Computer Concepts, software used by search sites to locate relevant webpages by creating a simple query based on your search criteria and storing the collected data in a search database.
Drilling down
In Excel, a feature that lets you enter a number in the same cell through all selected worksheets.
Keyword
In Office, terms added to a file's Document Properties that help locate the file in a search.
Directory
In Publisher, a type of catalog that usually provides details about individuals, products, or organizations, sorted alphabetically. In Word, a listing of all data records from the data source.
Deep web
Information contained in the databases that some Web sites use to generate their dynamic Web pages.
Search engine algorithms
Instructs the search engine to locate and rank search results based on keywords and a variety of other factors.
Full-text searching
Searching all of the words on the page
Shopping aggregator
Shopping search engines that aggregate, or collect, information about consumer products or services, and help online shoppers compare models, prices, shipping costs, and other variables from various sellers before they buy.
Crawler
Software that combs the web to find webpages and add new data about them to a database. Also called spider.
Spider
Software that combs the web to find webpages and add new data about them to the database. Also called crawler.
Shopping bot
Software that will search several retailer websites and provide a comparison of each retailer's offerings including price and availability
Social media aggregators
Specialized search engines that locate social media resources
Search text box
The search engine text box in which search keywords are entered.
Web Crawler
This is a robot program that crawls through content on pages for any number of indexing reasons. For example, Google uses a crawler to index and sort pages for search.
Search Engine Optimization
Tools to allow search engines to better find or index your website.
Natural language search
Users can ask a question in the same manner as they would ask the question of a person.
Broken link
a link to a website that has been moved or deleted (not functional)
Invisible web
multitude of web databases and other resources that are not indexed by search engines, use many search engines
targeted search
search query that uses keyword combinations to ask a specific question
