Q.What is a search engine?
Search engines are bots or programs(often referred to as "spiders" or "robots") which search the website databases to look for the information/words typed by the user in the search field.
Q.How do search engines rank the stuff they find on the internet?
Depends what site it is, for example: google by how frequently other sites link to you, not by what you do or don't say on your site, although they do of course use what is on your site to determine whether your page is of relevance. Special attention is paid to bold text or to keywords and summaries in the head of the HTML document.
Q.Who, or what, makes one page (that you might get in your search results) more useful than another one, so that it is put at the top of your search results?
Various factors contribute to the importance of the top page to the others. The number of visitors on the website, the size of information, the size of the website, how regularly the site is being used by other users, the accuracy of the website etc contibutes one page more useful than the another one.
Q.what are some of your favourite search engines? why do you like one more than others?
I've got only two favourite search engines www.google.com and www.ask.com I like google more because it is more accurate, the information i get from google is pretty much all I need. I don't know how google is so accurate, but I'm certain that if I need to find information my first preference would be google and the reason is because of its accuracy and speed. The simplicity of the looks of the google also makes the load up quicker even when my computer or internet is running slow. I like ask.com is also my favourite because its is easy to look for answers by typing in direct answers. If i'm doing an assignment and I need an answer to a question, i'd just open ask.com and type in the question and ask.com just find the direct answer to the question. I like google more then ask.com because of its accuracy and current information, its is more simple looking which helps its to load faster(less graphics).
Q.Can you find some current news stories about search engines? (for example, Google has been in the technology news a bit lately).
Here is a pretty cool new I found on the google website itself about google. Poor google, everyone is trying to put you down. Don't loose hope. Google gets day in Belgian court AOIFE WHITE Associated Press BRUSSELS, Belgium — A Belgian court will hear Google Inc.'s defence on Friday against local newspaper complaints that it stole content from their Web sites without paying them or asking their permission. This will be the first time Google argues its case after the Brussels-based Court of First Instance ordered the California-based company to remove Belgian French-language newspaper content from its news index, threatening daily fines of 1 million euros ($1.28-million (U.S.) The above information is copy and pasted from http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20061123.gtgoog23/BNStory/Technology/home I'm not stealing it !!! :D
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