Searching the Internet


 

Do you know these words?

search engine
spider (robot, crawler)
Netcenter
Excite
Infoseek
Lycos
Altavista
LookSmart
Hotbot
directory
Yahoo
ranking
relevancy
metasearch engine
self-publication
personal home page
editor

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