THE THE INDEXAL REPRESENTATION IN THE WEB: a study of the syntagm "História da Paraíba" in the Alta Vista and Google sites

Abstract

It presents the result of the exploratory study on the representation of nominal syntagm "História da Paraíba" in the WEB, in the Google and Alta Vista sites, aiming at the investigation of how they proceed the representational organization, in both the context of the indexing, and the covering of contents, considering the headings of the USP database, in the area of "História da Paraíba". The methodology used was the direct search in the Google and in the Alta Vista, as well as the individual intensive observation and non-structural interview, and the content analysis techniques. The results show that the index representation in the Web needs readjustments on how to represent the electronic documents to attend the expectations of this new informational media. Concerning the content covering, it was observed tha , although it had reached a small percentage of completeness in both Sites, being the USP DEDALUS database, both Sites present the subject of importance in the area of ‘História da Paraíba’.