Skype CONTENTS Introduction CHAPTER ISEARCH ENGINE HISTORY CHAPTER 2 WEB CRAWLING 16 CHAPTER 3 STORAGE AND SEARCHING 26 CHAPTER 4 SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION 34 CHAPTER 5 FUTURE SEARCH ENGINES 40 Glossary For More Information 47 Index
II A search engine is one of the most important tools you can use to find pages on the World Wide
INTRODUCTION search engine is a tool that helps you find information on the Internet The results of your search are displayed on a page called the Search Engine Results Page SERP There is a vast amount of information on the Internet Search engines make finding information quick and easy They use computer programs to comb through the millions of pages on the web Search engines index the pages which means they organize them into groups with similar content One group could be all the pages about the president of the United States Another group could be all the pages about a baseball team If you want to find out about movies at your local movie theater for example you can use a search engine such as Google to help you When you type www google com into your Internet browser the Google logo appears in the middle of the web page If you type the name of your local movie theater in the search box a list of pages about this theater will be displayed Then all you need to do is click on a page to see if it has the information you
