On Monday we’ll be discussing the mechanics of searching, including what a database is and how search engines work. Please read the following:
- Badke chapter 3, “Database Searching with Keywords and Hierarchies”
- Liddy, E. (2001). How a search engine works. Searcher, 9(5), 39-45.
- Leibman, A. (2010). How search engines work: the mechanics behind the results. Smart Computing, 21(6), 50-51.
Please write one reading response post and add one comment to another’s post.
Slides from today are available here.
