 Define Search Engines  Design a electronic letterhead

 A program that searches documents for specified keywords and returns a list of the documents where the keywords were found.programkeywords  like Google, Alta Vista and Excite that enable users to search for documents on the World Wide Web.

 Those wishing to locate something would enter a query about what they’d like to find and the engine provides links to content that matches what they want.

Google - The world's most popular search engine. Bing Search: Microsoft's entry into the burgeoning search engine market. Better late than never. Yahoo! Search: The 2nd largest search engine on the web (as defined by a September 2007 Nielsen Netratings report. Nielsen Netratings AltaVista: Launched in 1995, built by researchers at Digital Equipment Corporation's Western Research Laboratory. From 1996 powered Yahoo! Search, since Yahoo technology powers AltaVista.

Excite: Now an Internet portal, was once one of the most recognized brands on the Internet. One of the famous 90's dotcoms. Go.com: The Walt Disney Group's search engine is now also an entire portal. Family-friendly! HotBot was one of the early Internet search engines (since 1996) launched by Wired Magazine. Now, just a front end for Ask.com and MSN. AllTheWeb: Search tool owned by Yahoo and using its database, but presenting results differently. Galaxy: More of a directory than a search engine. Launched in 1994, Galaxy was the first searchable Internet directory. Part of the Einet division at the MCC Research Consortium at the University of Texas, Austin search.aol: Now powered by Google. It is now official. It is now official

-Search.org -Search.org : A mini- portal with a number of tools for searching addresses. Find current, former addresses, extract them from the web. Nicado : Free to register, Search addresses. The Nicado search engine allows registered users to search the Nicado database using an address or telephone number. TEK search engine is an - based search engine developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The search engine enables users to search the Web using only . It is intended to be used by people with low internet connectivity.

Games Cheatsearch.org : Finds Game Cheats from all over the web. Searches all of the most popular cheat sites and forums to find cheats for any game. Genie Knows : A division of IT Interactive Services Inc., a Canadian vertical search engine company concentrating on niche markets: health search, video games search, and local business directory search. Wazap is a vertical search engine, video game database and social networking site that distributes gaming news, rankings, cheats, downloads and reviews.

Instructions:  Design a creative letterhead for your journal. Yes, we will start working in a Journal!  Use text, graphics, formats, and colors that reflect you as an individual.  Include your name, Class Name and Period, and e- mail address.  Save your letterhead as a template. You will be using this template for your assignments.  Insert an image. Apply artistic effects to the image.  Insert a footer with the date last updated.  Apply a theme and customize the theme.  Save your work to your flash drive or it to yourself.

Journal Entry:  Compose your first journal using your personal journal template that you have created today.  The journal should be well-written, properly formatted, and use graphics where appropriate.  The journal should contain proper grammar and correct spelling.  Submit your journal to me by .  My address is:  Journal Topic: › How do you use search engines? › List three ways in which you currently use the internet.

 If you did not turn in your Computer Buying Project – Do so today!  me your first journal entry.  address: