Overview
ABSTRACT
Search engines are part of our daily digital life and are essential hubs for seeking information on the Internet. What are the main ones? How do they work? This article describes the different phases of information processing used by tools such as Google or Bing: web crawling, page indexing, relevancy criteria analysis and use of in page / off page rating and display of the results.
Read this article from a comprehensive knowledge base, updated and supplemented with articles reviewed by scientific committees.
Read the articleAUTHOR
-
Olivier ANDRIEU: Consultant, Publisher of Abondance.com
INTRODUCTION
Search engines punctuate the digital lives of today's Internet users. Essential crossroads for any investigation on the Web, they have evolved considerably from the first tools (Excite, Webcrawler, Lycos, Altavista, etc.) to the current leader, Google, and its challenger, Bing, which very few competitors are currently able to match. In any case, it's worth taking a closer look at how these tools work and how they've evolved over the years, as knowledge of what we can find "under the hood of the engines" can also help us to better carry out our Web searches...
The Ultimate Scientific and Technical Reference
KEYWORDS
Robot | search engine | Google | Bing
CAN BE ALSO FOUND IN:
This article is included in
Software technologies and System architectures
This offer includes:
Knowledge Base
Updated and enriched with articles validated by our scientific committees
Services
A set of exclusive tools to complement the resources
Practical Path
Operational and didactic, to guarantee the acquisition of transversal skills
Doc & Quiz
Interactive articles with quizzes, for constructive reading
Web search engines
Definitions and general data
Bibliography
- (1) - BRIN (S.), PAGE (L.) - The anatomy of a large-scale hypertextual web search engine. Computer networks and ISDN Systems. - https://snap.stanford.edu/class/cs224w-readings/Brin98Anatomy.pdf (1998).
- ...
Websites
Worldwide search engine statistics
The problem of measuring (and comparing) search engine market share
...Events
SEO Campus and SEO Camp Days
https://www.seo-camp.org/agenda-des-evenements-seo-et-webmarketing/
SMX Paris
Directory
Organizations – Federations – Associations (non-exhaustive list)
Seo Camp
The Ultimate Scientific and Technical Reference
