Many people use the term “search engine” to refer to any site, like Yahoo, MSN, AltaVista or Google, where you go to look for something on the Web. However, there are two distinct categories of search sites, and they use vastly different mechanisms to determine whether and how to list your Web site. Directories such [...]
A couple of key search engines operate differently than the others. Google is probably the most important since, as of August 2000, it replaced Inktomi as the provider of search results for Yahoo! While Yahoo!’s primary results continue to come from its own directories, the secondary results now come from Google.
It is important to understand how search engines work,before your website can rank highly in the search engines. In order for search engines to tell you where to find information, it must find the information first. To find the millions and millions of global web pages that exist, the search engines use programs called ’spiders’, [...]