 Understand
your search engine options
 The TAFE Student Portal http://www.tafe.sa.edu.au and some TAFE library homepages come equipped with a "Search" button.
Click that button and you'll be in the
driver's seat of a
search engine!
A "search engine" lives up to its name: it's a powerhouse
of a database builder which is fuelled by keywords you supply. It works like this:
- you type keywords into a search box on the homepage of a
search engine – like http://www.mamma.com/
- the engine combs perhaps millions of Web pages, looking for
matches to your keywords
- the results are organised into a results list and presented
on-screen
- as the engine driver, you scan the list – either selecting
the pages/results
you think are valuable OR deciding to run a revised search,
based on a different
combination of keywords
- finally, the engine links you to individual items in your results
list, when you click those items.
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