Knowing The Strengths, Weaknesses And Quirks Of The Search Engines May Lead You To Your Choice

By Roger Gray


The quantity of data collection on the Web is nigh on to unbounded, and attempting to itemize all the noteworthy replies in a worldwide channel of data can be more than just complicated, knowing that the biggest names in the search engine world will only meet less than 20 percent of the entire cyberspace pages. How different is a search engine from a Web directory? For search engines like AltaVista, a collection of data sites is assembled without outside control by seeping through all the links they come across in the Web and marking out noteworthy pages. While people take change of the maintenance of web directories such as yahoo, a handful of search engines are operating on both techniques.

Searching the Web is one complex process and several factors contribute to this fact. Each search engine has its own strengths, weaknesses and quirks. And each one returns results based on different sets of priorities. Classification of Web pages containing the keywords is one of the determinants that search engines consider. They go to the top of the list of results if the keywords happen to be near the top of the Web page over even in the beginning paragraphs.

Sometimes the subject keyed in would appear several times in the Web page and this affects its rank on the search engine result list, thus some Web writers will mention words on several times on purpose to cram up search engines. But these are not the only basis of search engines in prioritizing their generated lists. Invisible information from HTML lines called Meta tags also helps determine the order of importance of pages as a list is compiled.

If you want to emphasize some words or group of words in your page, you can do it using Meta tags called keywords tag. The search engines are divided when it comes to this indicator because some of them honor it like hotbot and info seek, and some set it aside, like Lycos. If you have link subscription, it frees the companies from the hassle of having to spam pages to search engines, and by this I mean the style of recapitulating keywords on the Web page multiple times.

A beneficial top position in the list is within reach by paying. Bereft of modifying words, the keyword books will turn out a search result headed by an online bookseller's name. We can read from the short summary beside the Web address listed in the result that an online bookseller shells out the total of a quarter, a dime and three nickels each time somebody clicks through their site.

Over a hundred million indexed Web pages place AltaVista as one of the largest ranking search engines with regard to enormity. There is a problem due to the occurrence of links that will not bring out a result list, although the initial port is very efficient especially for beginners. Its advanced search options are not extensive, either. Three options are available, and they are the adjunct to the Boolean search boundaries, the capability to prioritize keywords and the date parameters.

Moving on to the next search engine, Google applies a text matching operation which is geared to screen and just return results that contains the keywords in the search field, a process many search engines miss out. It also scans the linking pages for comments regarding the page being sought. Adding up to Google's special traits is Web page caching, which is defined as having the search engine save copies of Web pages that it links to.

Moving forward with the features of Google that adds to its superiority, is the feature found in its home page called ?I'm feeling lucky?. Google wanted to give people the option to skip the list of results and go straight to the first site relevant to their search, like during basic searches such as company names.




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