О. В. Фёдорова е. В. Мезина е. В. Хамис английский язык в сфере информационных технологий и коммуникаций учебное пособие

Conditionally tools of search are subdivided into search means of a help type (directories) and retrieval systems in the pure state (search engines).

The search tools of the first type name subject, or thematic catalogues more often. The company owning such catalogue, continuously conducts huge work, investigating, describing, cataloguing and displaying on half-glass contents of WWW-servers and other network resources scattered worldwide. Result her(it) titanium of efforts is the constantly updated hierarchical catalogue, at the top level the most general(common) categories, such as “business” are assembled, "”science", "”art" etc., and the elements of the lowermost level represent the links to separate WWW-pages and server together with the brief description of their contents.

Guarantees that such catalogue really covers all contents WWW, nobody will give, however possible(probable) not the completeness and selection of materials is with interest expiated there, that for the present not under force to any computer - intelligence of selection.

The subject catalogues give also opportunity of keyword search. However search this occurs not in contents of WWW-servers and in their brief descriptions stored (kept) in the catalogue.

The subject catalogues Internet can be counted literally on fingers, as their creation and support require (demand) huge expenses. To most known concern Yahoo, WWW Virtual Library, Galaxy and some other.

Is most popular in the population Internet the catalogue Yahoo. On the first page Yahoo, located to the address http://www.yahoo.com, you receive access to two basic method of work with the catalogue - keyword search and hierarchical tree of sections.

Having begun descent (release) on sections of the catalogue, you will see that each section contains the precisely same field for input of keywords and button Search, starting search.

Each section can include as transfer included in him (it) and actually links to pages concerning at once all section, with their brief descriptions.

Instead of travel you can at once get in the necessary place of the catalogue Yahoo with the help of search. Having entered one or several keywords divided (shared) by blanks, in a line of search and having pressed the button Search, you receive the list all in Yahoo that comprises the specified keywords. This list will be divided (shared) into two parts - “categories” and “sites”.

If total of the links returned as a result of search, exceeds 25, the list of the links will be broken on some parts.