ost 140 internet chapter 2
Boolean operator
A character, word, or symbol that focuses a web search. Also called a search operator.
Wiki
A collaborative website that can be edited by anyone that can access it.
Search query
A question that defines the information you seek when using a search engine
Shopping aggregator
A search engine focused on shopping for products or services.
Meta search engine
A search engine that scans Web pages for <meta> tag information.
Open-ended search
A search query that asks a general or broad question.
Natural language search
A search that uses complete sentences
Web crawler
A softbot responsible for following hyperlinks throughout the Internet to provide information for the creation of a web index.
Breadcrumb trail
A step in the path you follow to display a webpage
keyword
A word or phrase that describes a subject or category on which you can search.
Drilling down
Clicking links to go from a general topic to specific data
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.
. Hit
Each webpage item listed in search result
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.
Deep Web
Invisible web; the area of the web generally not accessible by search tools
. Social media aggregator
Search engines that focus on social media resources
Full-text searching
Searching all of the words on the page
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
Search text box
The search engine text box in which search keywords are entered.
Search engine optimization
Tools to allow search engines to better find or index your website.
Hashtag
a number symbol # used to label keywords in a tweet. A way of categorizing.
Targeted search
a search query that asks a specific question
Primary source
any document, item, or other data that provides firsthand information about a topic
Broken Link
indicate poor attention to detail
Search engine algorithms
instruct the search engine to locate and rank search results based on keywords and a variety of other factors
Directory
is a human-compiled, hierarchical list of webpages
Index
list of webpages
Bot
major component in search engines
Invisible Web
multitude of web databases and other resources that are not indexed by search engines, use many search engines
Surface Web
part of the internet that is directly linked to static websites
White-pages directory
people and business search
Stop Word
small, unimportant words in a natural language query
Yellow-pages directory
specialized directory used for looking for other information such as an email address or telephone number
