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标题：SEARCH ENGINES: THE PROPELLERS OF INFORMATION DIFFUSION
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作者：Jagandeep Singh
期刊名称：International Journal of Information Dissemination and Technology
印刷版ISSN：2229-5984
电子版ISSN：2249-5576
出版年度：2011
卷号：1
期号：1
页码：44-46
语种：English
出版社：International Journal of Information Dissemination and Technology
摘要：Gone are the days when one used to grope in the dark for a relevant piece of information. In the present day world, one is inundated with information, courtesy the World Wide Web. This surfeit of information brings in its wake, a different challenge; that of information overload. The search engines, led by Google, enable surfers to dig into this enormous set of information and fish out the requisite data. To that extent these search engines are a sine qua non and the flag bearers of information dissemination. The present paper is a modest attempt to understand the functioning of these search engines. The paper, by enlisting the various search engines and their purpose, tries to highlight the range of options available to surfers. Finally the paper attempts to envisage as to what the future would look like in the terrain of Internet searc.