Parallel Search Engines



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	Course Homepage Course Modules: Online Community Background Information Basic Web Searching Managing Resources Advanced Web Searching Comprehensive Web Search Strategies Course Projects Assessment	Parallel Search Engines When you were working your way through those tutorials on how search engines work, you probably ran across the term "MetaSearch Engines" or Parallel Search Engines. Parallel Search Engines are search tools that allow you to search multiple search engines with one query. They can save a tremendous amount of time and often turn up hits that you might miss if you use just one search engine. You will now examine several of the many parallel search engines available. These are generally considered to be the top performers by information professionals. In this exploration, you will use the same general topic you used with the search engines and will examining the "hits" returned by each of the parallel search engines. Look for similarities and differences… Are the webpages displayed at the top of the list consistent from one parallel search engines to the next? Resize the web browser window, open the digital logbook and the link to parallel search engines below. Parallel Search Engines Record your observations. Continue adding bookmarks to your growing collection. Save the digital logbook file when you are finished. Next you will examine Web Indexes. Continue

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Website maintained by Bob Jost \| bjost@josts.net \| last revised Jan. 1, 2002 Copyright © 1998-2002 by Bob Jost & Geoffrey Jost. All rights reserved. No part of this website may be transmitted, stored or recorded in any form without written permission from the authors.



instructor \| listserve \| web board \| project archives \| toolkit

	Course Homepage Course Modules: Online Community Background Information Basic Web Searching Managing Resources Advanced Web Searching Comprehensive Web Search Strategies Course Projects Assessment	Parallel Search Engines When you were working your way through those tutorials on how search engines work, you probably ran across the term "MetaSearch Engines" or Parallel Search Engines. Parallel Search Engines are search tools that allow you to search multiple search engines with one query. They can save a tremendous amount of time and often turn up hits that you might miss if you use just one search engine. You will now examine several of the many parallel search engines available. These are generally considered to be the top performers by information professionals. In this exploration, you will use the same general topic you used with the search engines and will examining the "hits" returned by each of the parallel search engines. Look for similarities and differences… Are the webpages displayed at the top of the list consistent from one parallel search engines to the next? Resize the web browser window, open the digital logbook and the link to parallel search engines below. Parallel Search Engines Record your observations. Continue adding bookmarks to your growing collection. Save the digital logbook file when you are finished. Next you will examine Web Indexes. Continue

Fresno Pacific University \| School of Professional Studies

Website maintained by Bob Jost \| bjost@josts.net \| last revised Jan. 1, 2002 Copyright © 1998-2002 by Bob Jost & Geoffrey Jost. All rights reserved. No part of this website may be transmitted, stored or recorded in any form without written permission from the authors.