PlantFloor SEARCH ENGINE links

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"Your Gateway to the Internet, and the Internet's Gateway to You"

INTERNET GUIDES: SEARCH ENGINES Serving the Precision Manufacturing and allied industries.

What is a Search Engine versus a Directory?

Search Engines	Directories
Alta Vista.. good for research Excite.. aka AOL Netfind HotBot... good for research Lycos... growing fast MSN..."new kid on block?" Netscape Northern Light... good for research	Amdahl List of Search Engines Highway 61 Infoseek LookSmart... rival to Yahoo! Snap...another hot rival Yahoo!... most popular on the Net

In simplified terms, a Search Engine is something that actually reaches out through the Internet, reads millions of web pages, extracts meaningful information, and builds an index for you to access.

A Directory, on the other hand, has been compiled by thoughtful humans for your access. YAHOO!, which is considered the industry's most important Search Engine, is actually a Directory.

There are hundreds of them. Maybe thousands. And people seem to call all of them Search Engines.

Www.plantfloor.com is a Directory, compiled through the use of Search Engines and Directories.

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