How Search Engines Work

By (BB) Blog Bloke February 1st, 2011 6 Comments

Helpful introduction to the inner workings of search engines:

Search engines utilize software programs known as bots or spiders that crawl the web to build their database. These spiders are sent to view and index pages which are later processed and retrieved from that database. If ranking on top of the search engine results pages (SERPs) is crucial for you, then it is important you understand the basics of creating a search engine friendly website. This post explains in detail how a search engine works. http://bit.ly/hvIiXU

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Comment by: Delia at 4:31 pm said...

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Reply by: BLOGBloke at 5:45 am said...
@Tub, thanks, I appreciate it.

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Comment by: Cheska at 6:43 pm said...

Yeah, I agree with you.This is not new to me because we already discussed this in our Internet Marketing class. I think you forgot to discuss this, search engines have four functions - crawling, building an index,calculating relevancy & rankings and serving results. Anyway, thanks for sharing.

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