Chapter 8: Search engine

Search Engine

How do search engine work?

        Internet search engines are special sites on the Web that are designed to help people find information stored on other sites. There are differences in the ways various search engines work, but they all perform three basic tasks:

• They search the Internet -- or select pieces of the Internet -- based on important words.
• They keep an index of the words they find, and where they find them.
• They allow users to look for words or combinations of words found in that index.

        Early search engines held an index of a few hundred thousand pages and documents, and received maybe one or two thousand inquiries each day. Today, a top search engine will index hundreds of millions of pages, and respond to tens of millions of queries per day. In this article, we'll tell you how these major tasks are performed, and how Internet search engines put the pieces together in order to let you find the information you need on the Web.

         Without them, it would be virtually impossible to locate anything on the Web without knowing a specific URL. But do you know how search engines work? And do you know what makes some search engines more effective than others?
When people use the term search engine in relation to the Web, they are usually referring to the actual search forms that searches through databases of HTML documents, initially gathered by a robot.

These are some example of search engine website you may know
www.google.com
www.bing.com
www.looksmart.com
www.yahoo.com
www.msn.com
www.search.com
www.lycos.com
www.webpagethai.com
others...

Did You Know...         The first tool for searching the Internet, created in 1990, was called "Archie". It downloaded directory listings of all files located on public anonymous FTP servers; creating a searchable database of filenames. A year later "Gopher" was created. It indexed plain text documents. "Veronica" and "Jughead" came along to search Gopher's index systems. The first actual Web search engine was developed by Matthew Gray in 1993 and was called "Wandex".

Chapter 7

These are some ideas to help and support the flooding crisis in Thailand

          For at a moment, Thailand had been flood for more than 2 months long this is a large critical subject for Thailand.

          Over twenty provinces had been suffered of the high volume of water, as we seen on NEWS that every agencies and institutions are trying to collaborate the flood victims.

          I think for now, that we already encountered the flooding crisis, we can support the victims by donate some primary factors such as dried or instant foods, water, medicine, vests, and also boat to help them to be able to escape from the very suffered area or to reach to recieve our items.



          Medical service is one another important and essential we must care because there are many ailment came with the water. During this situation, people are care more about themselves and their belongings, many people not desire to leave their house.

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Chapter6 Report writing and Citation

Example of writing citation
Book:
Elliott, H. Public  personnel administration: A value perspective. Reston, VA: Reston   Publishing, 1985. 

Burris-Meyer, H., and Cole, E. C. Theatres and  auditoriums. 2 nd ed. with new    supplement. New  York: Robert E. Krieger, 1975.

Fletcher, R. The making  of sociology:  A  study  of  sociology  theory. Vol. 1:    Beginnings and foundations. New  York: Charles Scribner’s Sons,    1971.

Katz, W. A. Introduction  to reference  work. 2 Vols. 2 nd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill,    1974.

Thailand. Office of the National Education Commission. A research report on higher   education system: A case study of Thailand. Bangkok: Office of the    National Education Commission, 1977.

Jounal:

Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific. ESCAP trade promotion    centre: What it is, what it does, 1976-1977. Bangkok: ESCAP, 1976.   (Mimeographed)

Online:

Bower, K.L.,and others. FYI on where to start – bibliography of  internet working   information[Online].1990. Available from E-mail: nisinfo@nis.nsf.net   

Prizker, T.J. An early fragment from central Nepal[Online]. (n.d.). Available from:   http://www.ingress.com/-astanart/pritzker/pritzker.html


This is an example of well structure report link
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/library/skills/Advice/Example%20report.pdf

Chapter5 Online Catalog and Database

 A database is a collection of information that is organized so that it can easily be accessed, managed, and updated. In one view, databases can be classified according to types of content: bibliographic, full-text, numeric, and images.

These are some EXAMPLE of journal database:

from http://www.databasejournal.com

 

from http://www.isiknowledge.com

Chapter4

Reference Collection
A reference collection is a collection of objects maintained for the purpose of study and authentication. Reference collections are generally large undertakings maintained by institutions

1. A dictionary is a collection of words in one or more specific languages, often listed alphabetically, with usage information, definitions, etymologies, phonetics, pronunciations, and other information; or a book of words in one language with their equivalents in another

2. An encyclopedia is a type of reference work, a compendium holding a summary of information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge

3. Biographical dictionaries is a type of encyclopedic dictionary limited to biographical information – have been written in many languages. Many attempt to cover the major personalities of a country

4. Directory is a list of name of residents, organizations, or firms in a city, region, country of internationally, providing various details' e.g. addresses, profession or trade

5. Atlas is a volume of maps or charts with or without explanations.

6. A gazetteer is a geographical dictionary or directory, an important reference for information about places and place names, used in conjunction with a map or a full atlas

7. A yearbook also known as an annual, is a book to record, highlight, and commemorate the past year of a school or a book published annually

8. An almanac is an annual publication that includes information such as weather forecasts, farmers' planting dates, and tide tables, containing tabular information in a particular field or fields often arranged according to the calendar etc.

9. Manual is a book of instruction on doing, making, or performing something.

10. A handbook is a type of reference work, or other collection of instructions, that is intended to provide ready reference

11. Bibliography (from Greek βιβλιογραφία, bibliographia, literally "book writing"), as a practice, is the academic study of books as physical, cultural objects

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Chapter3

Identify the difference between Library of Congress Classification System(L.C.) and Dewey Decimal Classification(D.D.C)


The Library of Congress Classification (LCC) is a system of library classification developed by the Library of Congress. It is used by most research and academic libraries in the U.S. and several other countries, for example, Australia and Taiwan, R.O.C. It is not to be confused with the Library of Congress Subject Headings or Library of Congress Control Number. Most public libraries and small academic libraries continue to use the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC).

^{The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) is a proprietary system of library classification developed by Melvil Dewey in 1876.
It has been greatly modified and expanded through 23 major revisions, the most recent in 2011.This system organizes books on library shelves in a specific and repeatable order that makes it easy to find any book and return it to its proper place. The system is used in 200,000 libraries in at least 135 countries.}

^{These are some links of library.....}

1. The Library of Congress website: www.loc.gov/
2. British Library website: www.bl.uk/
3. Thai National Library website: www.nlt.go.th/
4. Sripatum University Library website: http://library.spu.ac.th/
5. ASEAN Community website: www.asean.org/

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Finally, I have blog for Access to Library and Information Systems

Ok!! Today let's see at 14:30 - 18:30

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Homework chapter 2
1.objective facts
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2.Subjective opinions
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