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Search Engine and its functions

Updated: Jun 20, 2020


A Web Search Engine is a software system that is designed to provide you with


the most relevant information.When you type specific keywords google or any


other search engine provide information according to your intent.The search


results are generally presented in a line of results(often called SERP search



engine result pages). The information may be a mix of pages, images and


other type of files. Search engine performs specific functions which help you to


get the relevant information.


The functions of search engine are :


a.Crawling. When you type a keyword, then the search engine spiders search for


the websites that relate to the keyword . It collects information and stores it in


the search engine data base.


b. Indexing : Indexing means arranging the information category wise so that


the information can be accessed easily.Indexing arranges the website category


wise.


c. Rank : The other main function of a search engine is to rank the websites that


match user intent. Google is like a library with websites matching user intent


ranking in SERP


It s important to understand search engine functions



Names of some important search engines :


1 Google


2.Bing


3.Yahoo


4.AOL.com


5. Duckduck go


6. Baidu



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