Search Engines
Friday, February 8th, 2008Search Engines, what are they?
They are software programs that gather information form web sites on the internet and place the information into a data base. When a request is made for information on a subject, the search engine goes to the data base and displays the information for you to view.
Another term used when talking about search engines are spiders. Some people explain the action of the search engines like a spider going over a site to gather the information. So when a site is visited by a search engine, you may hear your site was visit by a spider. So now you know you need to feed the spiders if you want to get your web site listed in a data base.
The largest known search engine is Google. Yahoo is also well known but not as large.There are other lesser known search engines. The internet is too large even for two search engines, thus each search engine has a network of engines covering the various parts of the internet. If one search engine doesn’t have what you are looking for, try another one.
So what do these engines search for when going over your web site?