What is Search Engine & How does it work?

What is a Search Engine?

Search Engine is a web-based program used to search any query on the web using different algorithms. Earlier, when there were no search engines on the web, people used to remember URLs of sites. We can say that the Search Engine is an integrated website which helps to search for any information on the web in a systematic format.

How Does Search Engine Works?

When we talk about the working of search engine, three function play a primary role between user and search engine:

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When a user types any query on the search engine it reflects the top websites which represent the best content related to the query. But how these website comes on the SERP (search engine result page) is a teamwork between Crawler/Spiders  who search documents on the web and crawl full website code and content to Index it into the database and Rank it on the google SERP according to its reliability, uniqueness and prominence to the user query.

Types Of Search Engine?

In online search, people can use dozens of search engines for any query. But people stick with the most popular search engine, i.e. Google with around 86 percent of market share.

Presenting you the top 5 popular search engines in the world:

• http://www.google.com/
• http://bing.com/
• http://yahoo.co.uk/
• http://baidu.com/
• http://aol.co.uk/

What is Google Algorithm?

Google’s algorithms are a mind-boggling framework used to recover information from its database and immediately convey the most prominent outcomes for an inquiry. The search engine uses a blend of algorithms and ranking factors to convey website pages on its Search Engines Results Pages (SERPs)

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How Google Search Works?

Whenever you search any query on google, thousands and millions of web pages with prominent information get crawled. The question arises here is how google figures out which page to rank on the first page or end page?

To present you with the most helpful content for your query, Google organizes the web content under your search. Within time, Google algorithms sort millions of pages to give you the most significant answer.

To enable you to discover what you’re searching for, Google presents different results in different formats like images, infographics, videos, stories, etc.