A search engine is a way for Internet users to find what they are looking for on the Web. Popular engines include Google, Yahoo! and Bing. These engines allow people to type in a word, or a series of words, to find information online. A possible query might be “Christmas cookie recipes” or “Seattle insurance companies.”
Search engines help us find the information, products and services we are looking for on the Web. By entering keyword queries in the search field, we can tell an engine exactly what we are looking for and let it bring us the most authoritative and relevant results. That’s why an engine frequently crawls the Web using a metacrawler (sometimes referred to as a spider) to see what’s new and adjust its rankings accordingly.
So, what is a metacrawler/search engine spider? The engines crawl the Web using a metacrawler to scan websites for their content, keywords, meta tags, inbound and outbound links and other factors. Once the spider figures out what the page is about, it will rank that page accordingly for the appropriate keyword phrases.
That’s why it’s imperative that each page be properly optimized to rank for the appropriate keyword phrases. By using search engine optimization methods to help the engines determine what each page is about, a site’s rankings can be dramatically increased.
In addition to regular engines, there are specialized types of search engines such as a meta search engine, which uses a combination of other search engines to compile results. There are also directory search engines, which help people find websites listed in online directories.
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