Search Tools

Primary Searching Tools

Keyword Searching

Subject Searching

Title Searching

Author Searching

Online Catalog

Databases

The Web

The Web, page 3 of 5

Web Search Engines

A search engine is a keyword searchable database of Internet files collected by a computer program, such as a robot or a spider. Indexing, such as by title, is created from the collected files.

There are hundreds of web search engines; a popular engine is Google.

When to Use a Directory; When to Use a Search Engine (page 4 of 5)