Search Directory, Glossary of terms, Script, Scripting Language, SDSL, Symmetric Digital Subscriber Line, Search Engine

Script

A collection of statements written in a Scripting Language.

Scripting

Writing a script by using any Scripting Language is known as Scripting.

Scripting Language

In web terms: A simple programming language that can be executed by a web browser or a web server. See JavaScript, JScript and VBScript.

SDSL -- (Symmetric Digital Subscriber Line)

A version of DSL where the upload speeds and download speeds are the same.

Search Directory

Unlike a search engine, which relies solely on some form of Internet technology to operate, a search directory includes a human touch at some point; meaning someone actually edits links and classifies them into a directory. A search engine, on the other hand, uses a bot to sort it out.
The most famous search directory is Yahoo! and it's such a success because those two guys (Jerry Yang and David Filo) started to physically keep track of interesting sites, resulting in an organized way to view things on the Web. (Rumor has it that the way Yahoo! got it's name is because during that time, acronyms were becoming so popular and they jokingly referred to their project as "Yet Another Hilarious Acronym.")
A search directory can be classified as a search engine because the way in which the information in the directory is presented is obviously dependent on Internet technology. A search engine can never be referred to as a search directory because a directory makes use of human judgment at some point. The distinction and result of this difference is easily apparent when doing an online search. Instead of a "spit-out" of a robot's results (showing you 150,000 links of which the majority seems unrelated) a directory (like www.yourtie.info) comes back with more accurate links that are better sorted.

Search Engine

A (usually web-based) system for searching the information available on the Web.
Some search engines work by automatically searching the contents of other systems and creating a database of the results. Other search engines contains only material manually approved for inclusion in a database, and some combine the two approaches.
Computer program used to search and catalog (index) the millions of pages of available information on the web. Common search engines are Google and AltaVista.
A program which acts as a card catalog for the Internet. Search engines attempt to index and locate desired information by searching for keywords in which a user specifies. The method for finding this information is usually done by maintaining indices of Web resources that can be queried for the keywords entered by the user. These lists are either built from specific resource lists (as is the case with a search directory) or created by Web programs, with insect names like bots, spiders, crawlers, and worms.
From a Net surfer point-of-view search engines can be quite tiresome and not very efficient if you don't know how to use them correctly. On top of that, different engines are good for different kinds of searches so it's a good idea before using a search engine to READ THE ADVANCED SEARCH SECTION of the engine's Web site.