• Evaluating Web Information Resources
  Techniques and tools for evaluating information found on the World Wide Web.
  
  
• The Invisible Web
  The "invisible Web" contains information stored in searchable databases on the Web that is generally inaccessible using search engines. Special directories provide access to these databases.
  
  
• Search Engines
  A search engine is a searchable database of Internet files collected by a computer program (called a crawler, robot, worm, spider). Indexing is automatically created from the collected files. There are no selection criteria for the collection of files.
  
  
• Subject Directories
  Subject directories are collections of many links on a topic. They are compiled with human input and can help locate "the best" on a topic.
  
  

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The URL of this page is: http://facstaff.law.drake.edu/susan.lerdal/search/index.html
Links verified: March 5, 2004
By: Susan Lerdal