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PAPER ID:IJIM/V.2(IX)/215-222/39
AUTHOR: Minakshi
TITLE : USE OF SEARCH ENGINES FOR RETRIEVAL OF INFORMATION IN NIT KURUKSHETRA
ABSTRACT: Internet is a wondrous creation of the human being. It is a very big source of information which satisfies the needs of information users. The entire world is rapidly becoming obsessed with it. The information may be regarding stocks, sports statistics and any other kind but every kind of information is just one click far away from its users. Different people use it for different purposes, investors use it to know the information regarding share market, sports’ fans use it to know sports information and some people use it for entertainment and for other purposes, most importantly, it provides instant access to specific information. The study reported that Majority of the users use INTERNET daily. 1-2 hours and 2-3 hrs. are spent on search engine per sitting by students and faculty members respectively. Maximum number of users are using internet for 1-5 years. All the members are aware with search engines. Main purpose of browsing Search Engines is the education and research work. A good number of respondent’s sometime use paid databases i.e. EMRALD, SPRINGER, and SCIENCE DIRECT etc. Maximum number of student respondents use just one search engine on regular basis whereas two or three search engines are used by majority of faculty members. Google is used by all most 80% respondents and yahoo get the second rank however rest of the search engines viz. Ask, Bing and exalead got the negligible users.
KEYWORDS: Internet, Search Engine