What is a Search Engine

After completing this webquest you should have a comprehensive knowledge about the importance and the use of search engines. Having completed the worksheet, written the report, and given a 10 minute presentation you should be able to answer the following questions:

1. Why are search engines important?
2. What are the different types of search engines?
3. Why use a search engine?
4. How has the search evolved in the time?
5. Does the increase in information make the job of search exponentially harder because the volume of material is so high?
6. When people search, they rephrase their search term over and over again until they get a proper answer. To what extent do you think it can be fixed on the search engine side?
7. Do you think that the content on the Web is evolving to be more search-engine friendly?
8. What makes Google different from all the other search engines?
9. Do you think a new type of search may emerge which will be based on social networking, or does that type of thing fold naturally into existing search? 
10. What are the changes do you think coming in web search?
    
    

Using the available reources, you will find the answers of these questions. This webquest will help you to undertsnd everything about search engines. Once ypu complete this webquest, you will be able to use search engine more effectively.