Topic 1 Introduction to Internet Resources
Categories Subjects Purpose Search Facilities Search Strategy
Scanning search results
- Locate terms within the result
- Decipher the URL
- Note the ranking
- Check if they use directory links
- Determine if it uses caches pages
Subject directories
- Group information by topic
- Organized by topic in a hierarchical manner
- Selective and small size
- Annotations/summaries
- Access methods search engine
- Results display, different from search engines
- Browsing is the easiest and the most effective way
- Find your way through a hierarchy of topics
- Using the search facility
- Only searches titles indexed at the subject directory
site
- May use one or two-word phrase
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