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THOUGHTS: SEARCH ENGINE USE INFO
Spiders and robots and crawlers should be a welcome sight any day of the year! They can help you attract traffic to your web site, and increase your search engine ranking. So just what is it that they do? What can you do to attract and interest these critters?
Spiders are one of the three major elements of most search engines: the spider, the index, and the search engine software.
The Spider
The spider, also called the crawler (or robot) visits a web page, reads it, and then follows links to other pages within the site. This is what it means when someone refers to a site being "spidered" or "crawled." The spider then returns to the site on a regular basis, such as every two months, to look for changes.
The Index
All the information gathered by the spider goes into the second part of a search engine, the index. The index, sometimes called the catalog, is like a giant book containing a copy of every web page that the spider finds. If a web page changes, then this book is updated with the new information.
Sometimes it can take a while for new pages or recent changes to be added to the index. Thus, a web page may have been "spidered" but not yet "indexed." Until it is indexed--added to the index or catalog--it is not available to those using the search engine to find what they are looking for.
Search Engine Software
Search engine software is the third part of a search engine. This is the program that sifts through the millions of pages recorded in the index to find matches to a search request, and rank them in order of what it believes is most relevant.
So working backwards: The list of sites you receive from a search engine was generated by using search engine software. The software searches the index or catalog to find good matches for your request. The information and data that make up this index was delivered by the search engine spider. The spider searched different sites (like yours) on the web, to gather this information and data.
This information provided by http://www.mycomputer.com
SOME BASIC MAC TIPS!!!
Oh my! Getting ready to print, and the name of your printer doesn't show up in the chooser window
Printer Network Connected?
Find out:
Go to AppleMenu >Chooser>(type of printer you use)
A list of printers should appear in the box on the right.
IT'S NOT THERE???
What to do: (Appletalk must be reset to Ethernet in Control Panels under the Apple Menu) Say what??????
1. Open the APLE MENU at the top left on the menu bar.
(It looks like the Apple Computer apple symbol)
2. Go to CONTROL PANELS
3. Then go to APPLE TALK
4. Select ETHERNET (Use the pull-down arrows for choices)
5. Close the Window.
6. Choose SAVE when asked.
7. Now.. go back to the CHOOSER found in the APPLEMENU and click on it.
8. Click on the type of printer you use.
9. Your available networked printers' list should appear in the box on the right.. Select one, and a-printing you shall go! WHEW!
