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Types of Search Engines

There are several types of search engines: Crawler-based search engines use automated software programs called spiders to survey and categorize web pages for their databases. Directories use human editors to categorize websites within specific categories. Hybrid search engines use a combination of crawler-based and directory results. Meta search engines take results from other search engines and combine them. Specialty search engines focus on niche areas like shopping. Popular examples of each type are provided.

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Types of Search Engines

There are several types of search engines: Crawler-based search engines use automated software programs called spiders to survey and categorize web pages for their databases. Directories use human editors to categorize websites within specific categories. Hybrid search engines use a combination of crawler-based and directory results. Meta search engines take results from other search engines and combine them. Specialty search engines focus on niche areas like shopping. Popular examples of each type are provided.

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Types of search engines

Made by: Debashish Pachal Aakash Bhargava

Search Engine
Its a program that searches documents for specified keywords and returns a list of the documents where the keywords were found. Although search engine is really a general class of programs, the term is often used to specifically describe systems like Google, Alta Vista and Excite that enable users to search for documents on the World Wide Web.

Types
Crawler-Based Search Engines Directories Hybrid Search Engines

Meta Search Engines


Specialty Search Engines

Crawler-Based Search Engines


Crawler-based search engines use automated software programs to survey and categorize web pages. The programs used by the search engines to access your web pages are called spiders, crawlers, robots or bots. A spider will find a web page, download it and analyse the information presented on the web page. This is a seamless process. The web page will then be added to the search engines database. Then when a user performs a search, the search engine will check its database of web pages for the key words the user searched on to present a list of link results. Example: Google, Ask Jeeves etc.

Directories
A directory uses human editors who decide what category the site belongs to; they place websites within specific categories in the directories database. The human editors comprehensively check the website and rank it, based on the information they find, using a predefined set of rules. Example: Yahoo Directory, Open Directory.

Hybrid Search Engines


Hybrid search engines use a combination of both crawler-based results and directory results. More and more search engines these days are moving to a hybrid-based model. Example: Yahoo, Google.

Meta Search Engines


Meta search engines take the results from all the other search engines results, and combine them into one large listing. Example:
Metacrawler (www.metacrawler.com) Dogpile (www.dogpile.com)

Specialty Search Engines


Specialty search engines have been developed to cater for the demands of niche areas. Example: Yahoo Shopping, Froogle.

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