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Search Engines:
A Foreign Object to Teachers
Regulating
Information
What is lacking in our new "information highway" is a central regulating
agency that would organize all "web addresses" and make them accessible
to the public similar to how a phone book is used. Although, search engines
are very useful tools, close to 40% of all web pages available on the
Internet are not registered with search engines. As a result, unless you
know the exact web site you want to visit, a mechanism is not yet available
to help you to locate the address.
As time goes on, you will see more specialized search engines and indices
emerge to meet this growing need to have access to web sites organized
within a central file, or directory system. In the near future, we think
that there will be growing number of professions and services that will
create their own search engines that will focus specifically on their
given fields. Teach-nology.com, for example, is a web index designed specifically
for educators.
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