Information Sheet No.

Searching for Information on the Web

Search engine is a software program you can use to find Web sites, web pages, and Internet
files.To find a a page or pages, you enter a word or phrase, called search text or keywords, in
the search engine’s text box.

Spider, also called a crawler or bot, is a program that reads on Web sites in order to create a
catalog, or index, of hits.

Hit is any Web page name that lists as the result of a search.

Directory is an organized set of topics, such as sports, and subtopics.

Widely Used Search Engines

AltaVista altavista.com
Excite excite.com
Google google.com
HotBot hotbot.com
LookSmart looksmart.com
Overture overture.com
WebCrawler webcrawler.com
Yahoo! Yahoo.com