Using Search Engines

Crawlers

• Largely automatic
• 'Robot' or 'Spider' automatically traverses the Web, following links to find new sites
• Indexes the site automatically using full text indexing
• Will eventually find any site which is linked to from any site which is already known.

Full text of this presentation | Table of Contents | No Frames Authors: Simon Brooke and Juliette Cooke Slide 3 of 19