This document provides an overview of search engines, including: 1. A definition of search engines and a brief history noting the first tools like Archie and early search engines like W3Catalog. 2. An explanation of how search engines work by crawling websites and indexing pages, and different types like crawler-based and paid inclusion engines. 3. A list of advantages like accessing diverse information easily and disadvantages like too many visitors and leads. 4. Popular current search engines are identified as Google, Yahoo, MSN, and descriptions of their origins and services. 5. Tips for better searches include keeping queries simple, descriptive, and focusing on how pages may be written.

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2. Contents : Definition of Search Engines History of Search Engines How Search Engines works List of Search Engines Advantages and disadvantages How to make a better search with Search Engines Questions References

3. Definition of Search Engine: A search engine is a web site that collects and organizes content from all over the internet. A place, on the Net, where one goes to find sites about specific information. A program that searches documents for specified keywords and returns a list of the documents where the keywords were found.

4. History of Search Engines The first tools used for searching in the internet was Archie in 1990 by Alan Emtage. In 1991, two new search programs Verconica and Jughead. In septermer 1993, W3Catalog was the first web primitive search engines.

5. List of old Search Engines : In 1993 : W3Catalog, JumpStation, AliWeb In 1994 : WebCrawler, Go.com, Lycous In 1995 : AltaVista, Daum, SAPO

6. How is Search Engines work :

7. Types of Search Engines : Crawler-based Directories Paid Inclusion Pay Per Click

8. Advantages of using Search Engine : Easy to acquire different information from different topics determine specifically information Sorting and adding value to the information

9. Disadvantages of using Search Engine : Too many websites visitors Too many websites leads/sales

10. List of Popular Search Engines :

11. Google Larry Page and Sergey Brin were the creators of Google. The first Google company was in 1998 Famous Google services : “ Google Chrome “ ‘ android” and “Mobile” for mobile service Google translate

12. Yahoo Jerry Yang and David Filo were the creators of Yahoo The first Yahoo company were at 1995 Famous Yahoo services : Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Maps Yahoo! Search marketing

13. MSN Created by Microsoft MSN was created in 1995 Famous MSN services : Hotmail Msn Messenger MSN Explorer

14. What is the best Search Engine

15. For better search in Search Engines : keep it simple Think how the page you are looking for will be written describe what you need with need with as few terms as possible Choose descriptive words

16. Questions ?

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