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Search Engines:
A Foreign Object to Teachers
What's All
the hype?
The "phone book," we all take it for granted! Do you realize that each
phone book lists 95% of all of the phone numbers available in your area?
If the book doesn't work, just call directory assistance and they can
find just about any listed phone number. This dynamic tool has been available
for years.
Enter the "Internet"
By 2001, the web will consist of nearly a billion individual web sites.
Imagine a phone book with a billion numbers? I would think that it would
be overwhelming at the least and quite cumbersome to tackle. In the world
of cyberspace, "search engines and web indices" create a mechanism that
provide efficient and timely access to information that otherwise would
be gridlocked. However, unlike the phone company which controls the access
and flow of information, search engines and indices do not own the communication
channels through which information flows. In fact, when a new web page
is posted through the Internet, search engines have no way of knowing
that it even exists.
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