The characteristics of search refer to how users search the internet. This can be everything from the heuristics they use when creating a search term to the selection the user makes after the search results are return.
The most important characteristics of search engine:
*Quality of results
*Actuality of results
*Speed of computing query
*Presentation of results
*Variety of results
*Formulating query
*Auto-correction
It is interesting to note that more than of American adults search the internet every time they go online; and in fact more people search the internet than use the yellow pages when they’re looking for phone numbers or the locations of local business.
Many web searching studies have been carried out to analyze the characteristics of searching on the web.
One type of study concentrates on the characteristics of search engines, such as coverage, overlap and dynamics, which could improve users’ understanding of web searching and thus help users found desired information.
Normally the search engine database of web pages are built and updated automatically by web crawlers.
Search engine do not cover the tire internet. Search engines do not index all file, formats and have a size limitation on file indexed.
When one is only searching the database that has been compiled by the search engine and this database, it is claimed, is likely to contain only a small percentage of the pages available on the web.
A search engine indexes everything without judgment, which is a pro but surely a con. The principle research rule of validating a source and it content cannot be stress enough when using a search engine.
Characteristics of search
