NETWORK

APPLICATION
Discovery; Communication; Collaboration
and Web service (Web 2.0)
 The Internet permits users to access information located
in databases all over the world. By browsing and
searching data sources on the Web, users can apply the
Internets discovery capability to areas ranging from
education to government services to entertainment and to
commerce.

DISCOVERY
 In some ways, however, the Webs major strength is also
its greatest challenge. The amount of information on the
Web can be overwhelming, and it doubles approximately
each year. This makes navigating through the Web and
gaining access to necessary information more and more
difficult. The solutions is the use of search engines,
directories, software agents, toolbars, and portals.
 Search engines is a computer program that searches for
specific information by key words and reports the result.
A search engines maintains an index of billions of Web
pages.
Metasearch engines search several engines at once and
integrate the findings of the various engines to answer
queries by users.

Search Engines and

Metasearch Engines
TOP 10 SEARCH ENGINES IN
THE WORLD
Bing is Microsofts attempt to challenge Google in the area of search but despite their efforts they still did not manage to convince
users that their search engine can produce better results than Google.

Bing.com
Since October 2011 Yahoo search is powered by Bing. Yahoo is still the most
popular email provider and according to reports holds the third place in search.

Yahoo.com
Formerly known as Ask Jeeves, Ask.com receives approximately 3% of the search share. ASK is based on a
question/answer format where most questions are answered by other users or are in the form of polls. It also has
the general search functionality but the results returned lack quality compared to Google or even Bing and Yahoo.

Ask.com
 According to netmarketshare the old time famous AOL is still in the top 10 search
engines with a market share that is close to 0.6%. The AOL network includes many
popular web sites like engadget.com, techchrunch.com and the huffingtonpost.com.

Aol.com
 Blekko.com was developed by ex-Googlers and they present themselves as the spam
free search engine. It is better suited for webmasters and SEOs who need more
data for SEO purposes rather than normal users.

Blekko.com
wolframalpha is different that all the other search engines. They market it as a Computational Knowledge Engine
which can give you facts and data for a number of topics. It can do all sorts of calculations, for example if you enter
mortgage 2000 as input it will calculate your loan amount, interest paid etc. based on a number of assumptions.

Wolframalpha.com
Has a number of advantages over the other search engines. It has a clean interface, it
does not track users, it is not fully loaded with ads and has a number of very nice
features (only one page of results, you can search directly other web sites etc).

Duckduckgo.com
 archive.org is the internet archive search engine. You can use it to find out how a
web site looked since 1996. It is very useful tool if you want to trace the history of a
domain and examine how it has changed over the years.

Waybackmachine.com
According to alexa chacha.com is the 8th most popular search engine with a ranking
position of 297 in the US. It is similar to ask.com where users can ask or answer a
particular question. They also have a number of quizzes that can help you decide
on a number of topics. Its not bad at all and the answers are precise and to the
point. For example if you search What is the best search engine? you will get an
answer that Google is the best and most popular search engine and Yahoo is on the
second place.

Chacha.com
Sputtr Dogpile

METASEARCH ENGINES
 Theres a huge amount of information on the Internet, and
it is written in many different languages. How then do
you access this information?
The answer is that you use an automatic translation of Web
pages.
Googletranslator; altavista.com

Publications of Material
in Foreign Language
 YES
Multilingual web sites are now a competitive necessity
because of the global nature of the business environment.
Companies supporting 10 languages can spend $200,000
annually to localize information and another $50,000 to
maintain the websites.

Should companies care about providing

their websites in multiple languages?
 A portal is a Web-based, personalized gateway to
information and knowledge that provides relevant
information from different IT systems and the Internet
using advanced search and indexing techniques.

PORTALS
4 TYPES OF PORTALS
 The most popular on the Internet.
They are intended for broad and diverse audiences, and
they offer fairly routine content, some in real time.

Commercial Portals
 Offer a single point of entry to an entire community of
affiliated interest.

University most likely has an affinity portal for its

alumni.

Affinity Portals
 Offer personalized single point of access through a Web
browser to critical business information located inside
and outside an organization

Corporate Portals
 Serve entire industries.

Industrywide Portals