CIS 1200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Metasearch Engine, Social Bookmarking, Dogpile

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Computing and Information Science
• Course: CIS 1200
• Professor: John Saville

Document Summary

Delivers you content updates of your bookmarked websites through rss. Also known as social bookmarking, where you publicly bookmark a page so others can see. You can assign a tag to the bookmark to make it easier to organize. A set of programs that searches the web for keywords and then returns a list of the websites on which those keywords are found. Another option is using a subject directory, which is a structured outline of websites organized by topics and subtopics. Another option is a metasearch engine, such as dogpile which search other search engines rather than other websites. The software searches the indexed data, pulling out relevant info according to your search: each search engine uses a unique algorithm to formulate the search and create the resulting index of related sites. In order to get the best results, it is best to use boolean operators (and, not, or) that describe the relationships between words.