Google and Beyond

Jessica Zhang

Search engines have become an essential and popular way for people to find information online. But how do search engines work? Come to this workshop and share your ideas on effective and efficient web retrieval for academic purposes or just for fun! Find out how to use major search engines effectively, what is beyond Google, and what are the advantages and disadvantages of meta and clustering search engines. You will learn that what you can find through the use of search engines is just the tip of the iceberg and that there are ways to reach into the invisible web.

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