Search Engines and Cool Things on the Net
Computer Networking and Information Technology
City College of San Francisco
Search Engines
Search engine basics
Formulating searches
Citing web-based source material
Search Engines
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines
There is the Top 10
And then there are the hundreds of others
Gopher – The Search Engine Of The 90’s
Search Engine Basics
A search engine is a program designed to help locate
information by creating simple keyword queries
How Do Search Engines Know
Where Things Are At?
<meta name="keywords" content="Nicole and Debbie; Nicole; Debbie;
Magic Cat Ranch; California; Alaska; Chow Chows; Dogs and Cats;
Traveling with Pets; The Alaska Highway; North Star Borough">
This is how the site author can say: “I want my page to
This is how the site author can say: “I want my page to
be flagged if these keywords are used in a search”
be flagged if these keywords are used in a search”
Meta elements – are tags used in HTML documents
to provide structured metadata about a web page
Search
Results
Search Engine – Finding Resources
Is there another
way to get your
page to the top of
a search result?
The web developer or site owner can go to a search
engine and register their page or…
A web crawler is a computer program that is automated
to methodically visit websites and look for metadata
Search Engine Keeping Resources
Some search engines will only keep you on the top if
you are popular. This is based on the number of hits
your site gets
Formulating Searches –
GO LIVE
GO LIVE
Most search engines work with keyword queries in
which you enter one or more words called search terms
Formulating Searches
AND
OR
NOT
A search operator is a
word or symbol that
describes a relationship
between search terms
and thereby helps you
create a more focused
query
Specialized Search Engines
Wikipedia
You guys get
the sum total
of the worlds
knowledge
and I had to
use these !
MapQuest
www.mapquest.com
Zillow
https://gisgeography.com/free-satellite-imagery-data-
list/
Gis Geography
Your Tax Dollars paid for the Satellites, so you should get
to look through them
Cool Things on the Net
Digital Blasphemy
http://www.digitalblasphemy.com/
http://wallpaperswide.com/
Wallpaper Wide
Nationmaster & Statemaster
http://www.nationmaster.com/
Codecademy
https://www.codecademy.com/
Stack Overflow
https://stackoverflow.com/
Linked - In
https://www.linkedin.com
We will cover Linked in again when we go over Social Media
Chegg
https://www.chegg.com/
Pandora
https://www.pandora.com
http://radiooooo.com/
Radiooooo
Pick a time and place and hear
the music
IMDb
https://www.imdb.com/
Active Worlds
https://www.activeworlds.com/index.php
You Tube
eBay
Kahoot
Survey Monkey
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TFM7Q7J
Your Lab
Find me a cool website on
the internet