Ever thought about the "Google" as a god?
Google technology has advanced so much that today it referred to provide a god like service.Today Google has become much more than a mere search engine. In fact "google" is nowadays commonly used as a verb, probably it is the most common thing which all of us indulge in.
A search engine is defined as “a program for the retrieval
of data, files, or documents from a database or network.” The most
common type of search engines was developed to search, what we term, the
Internet. Though within academic and other databases, such as Ebsco,
there are search engines to search the content within the database
holdings. You may be familiar with Westlaw and LexisNexis; they both
have internal search engine programs that search the content behind the
password wall.
I used a search engine to help me find the above-mentioned definition. I used Google. That is my search engine of choice. However, there are a quite a few other well-known search engines, such as Dogpile, Yahoo!, or Bing. Did you know that there were over 150 different types of search engines available to search for web content? So rather than looking at one particular search engine as a one-stop-shop location for all resources available online, you might consider choosing your search engine, or engines, by what type of resources you are looking to review. There are two ways to evaluate search engines:
(1) by content, meaning what they are searching, and
(2) by how the information is compiled that they are searching, meaning that you are searching within a directory versus an index.
Search engines can be broken down into different categories of expertise for searching. You might consider the following categories in determine what you’re looking for in your search: Blog Search Engines; Book Search Engines; Business Search Engines; Forum Search Engines; Image and Multimedia Search Engines; International Search Engines; Job Search Engines; Legal and Law Enforcement Search Engines; Map Search Engines; Medical Search Engines; News Search Engines; People Search Engines; Price/Shopping Search Engines; and Social Search Engines.[i] Specific search engines may be better suited for one type of search over another. For example, if you were looking for someone’s phone number, you might want to use a people search engine versus a social media search engine, which would give you any Facebook, Twitter, MySpace information over actual phone numbers and addresses.
Another factor in considering which search engine you want to use is to evaluate how that search engine searches for information. You might consider whether the search engine is human-powered directory, searching the invisible or deep web, or is an all-purpose crawler search engine. Here are the differences. Human-powered search engines are also known as web directories, which is an index that is compiled by humans. Humans add links that they determine to be high quality to a directory, and when you run a search using this human-driven search engine, you are searching that directory of links for information relevant to your query. The following list includes human-based search engines:
With a sea of information all around Google is the " fish net" that finds you exactly what you need. Better call it god!
Google technology has advanced so much that today it referred to provide a god like service.Today Google has become much more than a mere search engine. In fact "google" is nowadays commonly used as a verb, probably it is the most common thing which all of us indulge in.
Search Engines in the limelight
Posted: December 18th, 2012 | By: Liz Johnson
I used a search engine to help me find the above-mentioned definition. I used Google. That is my search engine of choice. However, there are a quite a few other well-known search engines, such as Dogpile, Yahoo!, or Bing. Did you know that there were over 150 different types of search engines available to search for web content? So rather than looking at one particular search engine as a one-stop-shop location for all resources available online, you might consider choosing your search engine, or engines, by what type of resources you are looking to review. There are two ways to evaluate search engines:
(1) by content, meaning what they are searching, and
(2) by how the information is compiled that they are searching, meaning that you are searching within a directory versus an index.
Search engines can be broken down into different categories of expertise for searching. You might consider the following categories in determine what you’re looking for in your search: Blog Search Engines; Book Search Engines; Business Search Engines; Forum Search Engines; Image and Multimedia Search Engines; International Search Engines; Job Search Engines; Legal and Law Enforcement Search Engines; Map Search Engines; Medical Search Engines; News Search Engines; People Search Engines; Price/Shopping Search Engines; and Social Search Engines.[i] Specific search engines may be better suited for one type of search over another. For example, if you were looking for someone’s phone number, you might want to use a people search engine versus a social media search engine, which would give you any Facebook, Twitter, MySpace information over actual phone numbers and addresses.
Another factor in considering which search engine you want to use is to evaluate how that search engine searches for information. You might consider whether the search engine is human-powered directory, searching the invisible or deep web, or is an all-purpose crawler search engine. Here are the differences. Human-powered search engines are also known as web directories, which is an index that is compiled by humans. Humans add links that they determine to be high quality to a directory, and when you run a search using this human-driven search engine, you are searching that directory of links for information relevant to your query. The following list includes human-based search engines:
- Mahalo (Web directory that uses human editors and displays the results beside a Google search)
- Eurekster Swickis (Web directory that you create and have complete control over. Still in Beta form).
- Open Directory ( The “largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors.”[ii] The Open Directory project is also known as DMOZ, or Directory Mozilla.)
- Yahoo!Search Directory (“The Yahoo Directory is a human-created and maintained library of web sites organized into categories and subcategories. Yahoo editors review these sites for potential inclusion in the Directory, and to evaluate the best place to list them.”[iii])
With a sea of information all around Google is the " fish net" that finds you exactly what you need. Better call it god!
