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Search Engine. Search Engine Definition. Search engines are programs that search documents for specified keywords and returns a list of the documents where the keywords were found. A search engine is really a general class of programs
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Search Engine Definition • Search engines are programs that search documents for specified keywords and returns a list of the documents where the keywords were found. • A search engine is really a general class of programs • “Search engine” is the popular term for an Information Retrieval (IR) system.
Working of Search Engine • Web Crawling • Indexing • Searching
Web Crawling • Web search engines work by sending out a spider to fetch as many documents as possible • Spider: an automated Web browser which follows every link on the site
Indexing • Data about web pages are stored in an index database for use in later queries • Index is to allow information to be found as quickly as possible.
Search Engine Modules • Document Processor • Query Processor • Search & Matching Function • Ranking Capability • Summarizing & Presenting Documents
Features of Meta Search Engine • A meta search engine (also known as a multi-threaded engine) is a search tool that sends your query simultaneously to several search engines (SEs), Web directories (WDs) and sometimes to the so-called Invisible (Deep) Web, a collection of online information not indexed by traditional search engines. • A search engine that queries other search engines and then combines the results that are received from all. • After collecting the results, the meta search engine (MSE) will remove the duplicate links and, according to its algorithm, combine/rank the results into a single merged list.
Features of SEO • Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the visibility of a website or a webpage in a search engine’s "natural" or un-paid search result. • SEO is a technique which helps search engines find and rank your site higher than the millions of other sites in response to a search query • SEO is the activity of optimizing Web pages or whole sites in order to make them more search engine friendly, thus getting higher positions in search results.
Types of SEO • On Page SEO:This includes providing good content, good keywords selection. putting keywords on correct places, giving appropriate title to every page etc • Off Page SEO:This includes link building, increasing link popularity by submitting in open directories, search engines, link exchange etc