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Differentiate Search Engines and Web Browsers

Search engines and web browsers serve different functions. Search engines have databases that allow users to search for information online using keywords. They use crawlers to discover web pages and indexes to store and retrieve information for search results. Web browsers do not have their own databases and instead retrieve data from web pages using a graphical interface. They can display, print, and save files from the internet or intranet. Examples of popular search engines include Google, Yahoo, Bing, DuckDuckGo, and Baidu, while common web browsers are Chrome, Opera, Firefox, Mosaic, and Internet Explorer.

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Differentiate Search Engines and Web Browsers

Search engines and web browsers serve different functions. Search engines have databases that allow users to search for information online using keywords. They use crawlers to discover web pages and indexes to store and retrieve information for search results. Web browsers do not have their own databases and instead retrieve data from web pages using a graphical interface. They can display, print, and save files from the internet or intranet. Examples of popular search engines include Google, Yahoo, Bing, DuckDuckGo, and Baidu, while common web browsers are Chrome, Opera, Firefox, Mosaic, and Internet Explorer.

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DIFFERENTIATE SEARCH ENGINES AND WEB BROWSERS

SEARCH ENGINE : Search Engine is kind of a website where a user can search for information and the
results based on the same are displayed on the screen. A program that searches for and identifies
items in a database that correspond to keywords or characters specified by the user, used especially
for finding particular sites on the World Wide Web. A Search Engine is a software program that helps
people find the information they are looking for online using keywords or phrases. It has its own
database. You do not need to install a search engine in your system. Some of the popular ones are
GOOGLE, YAHOO, BING, DUCKDUCKGO, BAIDU.

THERE ARE 3 MAIN COMPONENTS OF TGE SEARCH ENGINE :

CRAWLER : is a process which is done by search engine bots to discover publicly available web pages.

INDEX : means when search engine bots crawl the web pages and saves a copy of all information on
index servers and search engines show the relevant results on search engine when a user performs a
search query

SEARCH ALGORITHM : is an algorithm designed to solve a search problem. Search algorithms work to
retrieve information stored within particular data structure, or calculated in the search space of a
problem domain, with either discrete or continuous values.

WEB BROWSERS : A web browser is a software application used to retrieve data from webpages or
HTML files present in servers. A web browser used Graphical Interface to help users experience an
interactive online session on the World Wide Web. No database of its own. Only comprises a
memory to store cache and cookies. Multiple Web Browsers can be installed on a single device.
Some of the popular ones are CHROME, OPERA, FIREFOX, MOSAIC, INTERNET EXPLORE.

THE WEB BROWSER FUNCTION SUPPORTS THE FOLLOWING OPERATIONS :

1. Displaying and printing Web contents on the Internet or intranet.

2. Displaying, printing, and saving a file on the Internet or intranet.

3. Uploading scanned original data (via a server on the Internet or intranet)

Student’s Name: Mary Rose C. Afable Subject: Empowerment Technology

Grade & Section: G –11 STEM Mendel Teacher’s name: Andrea Crisabel Decilos Sevilla
EXAMPLES
5 EXAMPLE OF SEARCH ENGINES
GOOGLE : Google Search is a fully-automated search engine that uses software known as web
crawlers that explore the web regularly to find pages to add to our index.
YAHOO : Yahoo is a web services provider that offers both a search engine and a directory of World
Wide Web pages organized in a hierarchy of topic categories.
BING : Microsoft Bing (commonly known as Bing) is a web search engine owned and operated by
Microsoft. The service has its origins in Microsoft's previous search engines. MSN Search, Windows
Live Search and later Live Search. Bing provides a variety of search services, including web, video,
image and map search products.
DUCKDUCKGO : DuckDuckGo is an internet privacy company. DuckDuckGo offers a number of
products oriented towards helping people protect their privacy online, most notably, a private
search engine, a tracker-blocking browser extension, email protection and app tracking protection
for Android.
BAIDU : Baidu is the dominant internet search engine company in China. Its features and services are
similar to those of Google, but its focus is on China, where it controls most of the search market.
Baidu censors search results and other content in accordance with Chinese regulations.

5 EXAMPLE OF WEB BROWSERS


CHROME : Google Chrome is a cross-platform web browser developed by Google. It was first
released in 2008 for Microsoft Windows, built with free software components from Apple WebKit
and Mozilla Firefox. Versions were later released for Linux, macOS, iOS, and also for Android where it
is the default browser.
OPERA : Opera is a multi-platform web browser developed by its namesake company Opera. The
browser is based on Chromium. Opera is available on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS
(Safari WebKit engine). There are also mobile versions called Opera Mobile and Opera Mini.
FIREFOX : Firefox is a free, open source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and
Mozilla Corporation in 2004. The Firefox web browser can be used with Windows, Mac and Linux
operating systems, as well as Android and iOS mobile devices. Firefox uses the Google search page
as its homepage and default search engine.
MOSAIC : Mosaic is the first browser to display images inline with text instead of in a separate
window. It is often described as the first graphical web browser, though it was preceded by
WorldWideWeb, the lesser-known Erwise, and ViolaWWW. NCSA Mosaic. NCSA Mosaic 1.2 for Unix.
INTERNET EXPLORE : Internet Explorer (IE) is a web browser that formerly came bundled with the
Microsoft Windows operating system. The browser was deprecated in Windows 10 in favor of
Microsoft's new Edge Browser. It remains available on a few versions of Windows, such as Windows
8.1, and Microsoft Edge includes a feature called IE mode.

Student’s Name: Mary Rose C. Afable Subject: Empowerment Technology

Grade & Section: G –11 STEM Mendel Teacher’s name: Andrea Crisabel Decilos Sevilla

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