An Introduction to Search Engines and Web Navigation, 2/e (Paperback)

This book is a second edition, updated and expanded to explain the technologies that help us find information on the web.  Search engines and web navigation tools have become ubiquitous in our day to day use of the web as an information source, a tool for commercial transactions and a social computing tool. Moreover, through the mobile web we have access to the web's services when we are on the move.  This book demystifies the tools that we use when interacting with the web, and gives the reader a detailed overview of where we are and where we are going in terms of search engine and web navigation technologies.

這本書是第二版，經過更新和擴充，旨在解釋幫助我們在網絡上尋找信息的技術。搜索引擎和網絡導航工具已經成為我們日常使用網絡作為信息來源、商業交易工具和社交計算工具的無處不在的存在。此外，通過移動網絡，我們在移動中也能使用網絡的服務。本書對我們在與網絡互動時使用的工具進行了解密，並詳細介紹了搜索引擎和網絡導航技術的現狀和未來發展方向。