Practical__ 4&5
>> Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Meta Search Engine
By this week, we are supposed to learn the function of the Meta Search engine and the subject directory. These are two more powerful search engines. Indeed, what Meta search engine can do is give you the combined searching result from many different major search engines; however, it doesn’t have its own database. This can save our time very effectively that we no need to go through each search engine one by one. By using Meta search, we can get the hottest searching result from different search engine at the same time. ^_^ Meanwhile, it’s also very powerful as it provide web, images, audio, video, news and even for yellow page search requirement!!
Here is one of the Meta search engines that I use.
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So base on the picture, we can see the different search facilities and more over the favorite fetches and quick starts. These are all the powerful functions of Meta search.
And for this particular Meta search engine, it donate for ASPCA.*. Every time we search by this engine, it will donate the money to the charity system. That’s one more reason why I choose the Meta search engine. I hope you all can like this kind and useful Meta search engine.
Subject directory
For subject directory, my choice is Yahoo!
By using this method, I can often find a good starting point of my topic. And directories are also useful for finding information on a topic when you don't have a precise idea of what you need. Many large directories include a keyword search option which usually eliminates the need to work through numerous levels of topics and subtopics
However, I found when I am looking for a specific question; it might be not that accurate because of the question may not be linked in to the directories. Hence, compare to Meta search engine. I more prefer the Meta one. As no need to build our own database, so maybe tomorrow we can build our own Meta search engine. Cheers! ^_^
Here is one of the Meta search engines that I use.
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So base on the picture, we can see the different search facilities and more over the favorite fetches and quick starts. These are all the powerful functions of Meta search.
And for this particular Meta search engine, it donate for ASPCA.*. Every time we search by this engine, it will donate the money to the charity system. That’s one more reason why I choose the Meta search engine. I hope you all can like this kind and useful Meta search engine.
Subject directory
For subject directory, my choice is Yahoo!
By using this method, I can often find a good starting point of my topic. And directories are also useful for finding information on a topic when you don't have a precise idea of what you need. Many large directories include a keyword search option which usually eliminates the need to work through numerous levels of topics and subtopics
However, I found when I am looking for a specific question; it might be not that accurate because of the question may not be linked in to the directories. Hence, compare to Meta search engine. I more prefer the Meta one. As no need to build our own database, so maybe tomorrow we can build our own Meta search engine. Cheers! ^_^
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