How do search engines work?
How do search engines work? Although search engines are basically just navigators of the internet, it would be impossible to imagine the internet without them. Due to the sheer size and depth of the World Wide Web, this very wealth of information becomes meaningless or unusable without search engines. Search engines basically perform three tasks: 1) They search the World Wide Web using specific words or phrases. 2) They index the results they find and their locations. 3) They provide a user access to this index and the ability to search it using combinations of words or phrases of their choosing. Today search engines perform billions of queries every given day and are constantly in a process of evolving and reinventing their services to balance the needs of websites, users, and advertisers.It all s...