Finding information on the Web

Abstract

There are thousands of pages on a great variety of subjects and interests on the Web. Finding information, however, is not a trivial task. Search tools are important in assisting us in this task. This text intends to show the differences of operation among several currently existing searchers on the Internet and how their peculiarities affect the results. Knowing their characteristics and they way they function it is possible to take advantage of all the potential of each tool and, thus to find the desired information more efficiently. We will also comment on the so-called invisible Web, a great amount of information that is not made available by traditional search tools.