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Depth-first search, when you’re browsing the net,
Is a way to get sidetracked. You set
Out to read, so you think,
But you follow each link
And you’ve not found an end to it yet. — Jim In Roses
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Introduction1
Dictionary
search : computer software used to search data (such as text or a database) for specified information; also a site on the World Wide Web that uses such software to locate key words in other sites — Webster See also OneLook
Thesaurus
Roget’s II (Thesaurus.com), Merriam-Webster Thesaurus, Visuwords
Glossary
Search Engine Terms (Keith Bramich)
Encyclopedia
Search engine is a computer program to find answers to queries in a collection of information, which might be a library catalog or a database but is most commonly the World Wide Web. A Web search engine produces a list of “pages”—computer files listed on the Web—that contain the terms in a query. — Encyclopædia Britannica
Search
Search Engine (Google)
Search Engine (Bing)
Search Engine (DuckDuckGo)
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Innovation
WolframAlpha (YouTube Channel)
WolframAlpha (Official Website)
What Is WolframAlpha? (WolframAlpha)
Technology
How Search Engines Work (Curt Franklin, How Stuff Works)
The Extreme Searcher’s Internet Handbook (Randolph Hock)
Commerce
Neil Patel (YouTube Channel)
Neil Patel (Official Website)
How Google Makes Money (Eric Rosenberg, Investopedia)
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Preservation
History
Data Is Beautiful (YouTube Channel)
The Google Graveyard: Remembering Three Dead Search Engines: Hey Google, Whatever Happened to Ask Jeeves, Dogpile and AltaVista? (J. Conditt, Engadget)
Search Engine History: From 1945 to Google Today (Aaron Wall, Search Engine History)
Library
WorldCat, Library of Congress, UPenn Online Books, Open Library
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Participation
Education
Finding Information on the Internet: A Tutorial (UC Berkeley)
Community
News
Search Engine Land
Search Engine Watch
Government
Document
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