Word: searchings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Most search systems work by periodically weeding their way through the Web and placing information about pages in a database, while others go so far as to provide news updates and sports scores...
...Search engines, as their name implies, allow you to search for information on the Web. They help you wade through the vast expanse of Web junk that, after the first few months of fascination, now have you cursing the Internet itself...
...while all Internet search programs proudly bear the name "search engine," some search engines are more equal than others...
Altavista is a search engine of the former ilk. There are no frills, just a blank field for you to enter your search query...
Yahoo (www.yahoo.com), takes an opposite approach. It has a group of people manually categorize thousands of web pages and write a brief summary on each. This eliminates a lot of extraneous search returns that you would get from a search engine alone...