Searching for data on a PC used to be a series of isolated activities. Users needed one or more computer-based software utilities to hunt through the hard drive for specific files containing keywords. Finding information beyond the hard disk meant logging in to a library or university system and entering archaic Boolean search terms into a distant server’s query window. All of that changed as Web sites became more user friendly. Search portals like Yahoo, Google and MSN specialize in providing search engines to find information anywhere on the Web.
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Searching Data: Browsers, Toolbars and the Desktop
Posted by: Jack M. Germain May 14, 2004 04:00 AMSearching for data on a PC used to be a series of isolated activities. Users needed one or more computer-based software utilities to hunt through the hard drive for specific files containing keywords. Finding information beyond the hard disk meant logging in to a library or university system and entering archaic Boolean search terms into a distant server’s query window. All of that changed as Web sites became more user friendly. Search portals like Yahoo, Google and MSN specialize in providing search engines to find information anywhere on the Web.