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Search Engines: Google, Bing and their competitors

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Search Engines: Google, Bing and their competitors

Author : Olivier ANDRIEU

Publication date: April 10, 2022, Review date: February 29, 2024 | Lire en français

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3. Indexing engine

3.1 Index

Once the web pages have been crawled, the spider sends the collected information to the indexing engine. Indexing is carried out in full text: all the words on a page, and more generally its HTML code, are then taken into account.

The indexing systems then identify, in "full text", all the words in the texts contained on the pages, as well as their position within the page. However, some engines may limit their indexing capacity. For many years, for example, Google limited its indexing to the first 101 kilobytes of a page (which was, however, quite a substantial size). Today, this limit no longer applies. Other engines can select according to document format (Excel, Powerpoint, PDF...).

Finally, as with documentary software...

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