web presentation (english assignment)

1. Web Crawler
● Each search engine uses
a crawler and spider.
● A web crawler is a
computer program that
browses the WWW in a
methodical.
● A web spider is a kind of
web crawler.
● This process is called
Web crawling or
spidering.
● Image source :
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/IP/Crawler.aspx

2. Spider
A spider is a program that crawls the Internet in
a specific way for a specific purpose.
Spiders are the basis for modern search
engines, such as Google and AltaVista.
These spiders automatically retrieve data from
the Web and pass it on to other applications that
index the contents of the Web site for the best
set of search terms.
Source : http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-spider/

3. Information Indexing
Documents from an Indexing
Software
Index
agent, are indexed by Agents
an indexing software. Extract
words or
something Database
Documents
● Information is putted into a certain database
● There are many different types of indexing
● The kind of index built how the information will
be displayed.

4. Searching and Visiting
If you visit web pages related your searching
keywords, you type those in a web page.
A particular search engine allow you to use
several keywords for searching.

5. Searching
An engine searched Your keyword from the
database.
Results are returned by HTML document.
There are some additional information.

6. Visiting
If you are interested in a title of the result
page, you click the link and go to directly.
Search engines or databases do not store
the documents of the indexed sites.