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<IMG ALIGN=bottom SRC="file:Search.gif" width=497 height=62 ALT="Search Explanation" USEMAP="#Map1">
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<AREA SHAPE="RECT" COORDS=" 457, 14, 483, 40" HREF="file:Search.htm">
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<title>How Internet Searching Works</title>
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<body>
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<H3>How Internet Searching Works</H3>
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<P>
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No one organization owns or controls the Internet. While this
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makes for an enviable degree of freedom to publish what you want,
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it makes it hard to find things, because there is no central list
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of everything on the Internet. In a very real sense, no one in the world knows where <I>everything</I> is on the Internet!
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<P>
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Fortunately, some organizations have made great strides towards
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cataloguing the contents of the Internet. In 1993, Carnegie-Mellon
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University created a "Web spider," a software "robot"
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that could travel from point to point on the World Wide Web and
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remember everywhere it had been. Carnegie-Mellon used this robot
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to create a vast World Wide Web index called Lycos (after Lycosidae,
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a variety of spider), and to this day continues to
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employ it to expand and improve the Lycos index as the Internet grows.
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<P>
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When you type a word, phrase, or Internet address into the "Searching
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The Internet" text box and click Search, the words you have
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entered are sent to a computer at Carnegie-Mellon which
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maintains the Lycos index. This computer
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searches the index and returns a "report" consisting
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of the pages it knows about that match what you typed in. The
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report includes an Internet shortcut for each page, so you can visit the pages
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it found with a single click!
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<P>
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<HR>
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<A HREF="file:Search.htm">Click here to return to "Search The Internet."</A>
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</BODY>
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</HTML>
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