What is a browser? 

What is a server?

What is a search engine?

Name some major search engines:

What are good qualities in a search engine?  (See this chart of search engine characteristics http://www.infopeople.org/search/chart.html  or http://searchengineshowdown.com/features/)

• relevance

• speed

• absence of redundancy

• avoids defunct pages

• accepts Boolean commands (including quotation marks)

• offers "most popular sites for..."

•  “more like this…”

• does not accept money to list sites prominently

• allows truncation ("wildcard") searching - usually with an *

• case-sensitive?

• other, depending on personal searching styles...

last updated: 06 March, 2003