Search services in the WWW/Internet: methods and techniques
website: http://www.inf-wiss.uni-konstanz.de/suche/tutorial/such_tutorial_advanced.html  (in German)
Start Date (month/year): ?
End Date (if ended) (month/year): 11 October 2002 ?
Typology: tutorial - campus initiative

Institution:
Information Science at the University of Konstanz
Konstanz

Address:
Informationswissenschaft
Universitaet Konstanz
Fach D 87
D-78457 Konstanz
Phone: +49-7531-88-2878 
Fax : +49-7531-88-2048

Contact person:
Bernard Bekavac
Information und Dokumentation
Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Chur, Schweiz
Ringstrasse
CH-7000 Chur
 

This tutorial covers the background of the Internet searching.
It examines the running procedures of the general Internet services, search services, Internet agents, and provides suggestions for creating own homepages according to the search engines and their requirements. 

Main contents

Information in the WWW/Internet

Search techniques in the WWW/Internet
· Searching in local www servers / Gateways to databases
· Searches on catalogues and indexes
· Robot searching / Search engines
· Creating own web sites
· Metasearch services (multi-search engines)
· Evaluating search engines
· Agents: an alternative approach to searching the Internet?

Bibliography

Keywords: searching the WWW – searching the Internet - search services – search methods – search techniques – search engines – agents for searching the Internet