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Search Engines

Search Engines	Name	Target	Type
	All 4 One	WWW	Multisearch
	AltaVista	WWW	Spider
	DejaNews	Usenet	Spider
	Excite	WWW	Spider
	Hotbot	WWW	Spider
	Infoseek	WWW	Spider
	Lycos	WWW	Spider
	Magellan	WWW	Spider
	SavvySearch	WWW	Multisearch
	WebCrawler	WWW	Spider
	Yahoo	WWW	Hierarchy
	Yahooligans	WWW	Hierarchy

SPIDER SEARCH ENGINES are search engines which actively search for web pages on the World Wide Web (WWW). These engines use "spiders" or "robots" that visit web sites regularly to automatically create catalogs of web pages. They allow the user to search the catalog that has been created by the spiders. Spiders tend to return a much higher number of pages.

HIERARCHIES are databases of pages indexed by a hierarchy of categories. Users of the WWW submit to the search engine their page to be catalogued by the category which they feel best suits their page.