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Record Nr.

UNINA9910140946903321

Autore

Levene M (Mark), <1957->

Titolo

An introduction to search engines and web navigation / / Mark Levene

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley, c2010

ISBN

1-283-91606-1

1-118-06034-2

0-470-87423-6

0-470-87270-5

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (500 p.)

Disciplina

025.0425

Soggetti

Internet searching

Web search engines

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

AN INTRODUCTION TO SEARCH ENGINES AND WEB NAVIGATION; CONTENTS; PREFACE; LIST OF FIGURES; CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 2 THE WEB AND THE PROBLEM OF SEARCH; CHAPTER 3 THE PROBLEM OF WEB NAVIGATION; CHAPTER 4 SEARCHING THE WEB; CHAPTER 5 HOW DOES A SEARCH ENGINE WORK; CHAPTER 6 DIFFERENT TYPES OF SEARCH ENGINES; CHAPTER 7 NAVIGATING THE WEB; CHAPTER 8 THE MOBILE WEB; CHAPTER 9 SOCIAL NETWORKS; CHAPTER 10 THE FUTURE OF WEB SEARCH AND NAVIGATION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

This book is a second edition, updated and expanded to explain the technologies that help us find information on the web.  Search engines and web navigation tools have become ubiquitous in our day to day use of the web as an information source, a tool for commercial transactions and a social computing tool. Moreover, through the mobile web we have access to the web's services when we are on the move.  This book demystifies the tools that we use when interacting with the web, and gives the reader a detailed overview of where we are and where we are going in terms of search engine and web naviga