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Search Engines
A search engine
is good when you have a specific search - say, three keywords or
more
There is no human selection or categorisation
For searching not browsing
'Spiders' search the net for sites and new pages and feed information
to search engine
Indexed by every word on the page
Search engine
identifies these pages in a database.
Specialised Directories
These are specialised
directories about a specialised topic
Newsgroups
These allow Internet users to
communicate with people having like issues, concerns, problems and
issues.
Newsgroups - not much to do with news, based on Usenet groups
of 1979, before WWW. Usenet needed a bit of software called
'dejavu'. that went bust to be picked up by Google.
Just about
anything goes.
Mailing Lists
The message arrives as an email
in List (one at a time) or Digest (a number together)
Need to
subscribe (free)
Look out for FAQ (frequently asked
questions)
Mailing lists are moderated
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