Friday, September 10, 2010

Introduction to Search Engines

As the Internet started to grow and became an integral part of day-to-day work, it became almost impossible for a user to fetch the exact or relevant information from such a huge web.This is the main reason why ‘Search Engines’ were developed. Search engines became so popular that now more than 80% of web-site visitors come from them. What exactly is a Search Engine? According to webopedia, a “Search Engine” is a program that searchesdocuments for specified keywords and returns a list of the documents where the keywords were found”.

Search engine market share:

Four times voted as Most Outstanding Search Engine, Google is an undisputed market leader of the search engine industry. Google is a crawler based search engine, which is known for providing both comprehensive coverage of web pages and most relevant information. It attracts the largest number of searches and the number goes up to 250 million searches
everyday.

Major Search Engines-

(1) Google
(2) Yahoo
(3) MSN
(4) Ask Jeeves / Teoma

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