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Search Engines: Presented By, Aswathy Gopinadhan 2 Sem Mba

Search engines are programs that search documents for specified keywords and return results. They work by using web crawlers to index web pages, create a catalog of keywords and page content, and return relevant results when a user searches. Major search engines include Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask.com, which employ crawlers to build databases and use ranking algorithms to determine the most relevant results. Different types of search engines include crawler-based, directories, specialty, hybrid and meta search engines that have different indexing and result methods. Search engines provide a useful way to search vast amounts of online information but also have limitations in their indexing capabilities and potential privacy and security issues.

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Search Engines: Presented By, Aswathy Gopinadhan 2 Sem Mba

Search engines are programs that search documents for specified keywords and return results. They work by using web crawlers to index web pages, create a catalog of keywords and page content, and return relevant results when a user searches. Major search engines include Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask.com, which employ crawlers to build databases and use ranking algorithms to determine the most relevant results. Different types of search engines include crawler-based, directories, specialty, hybrid and meta search engines that have different indexing and result methods. Search engines provide a useful way to search vast amounts of online information but also have limitations in their indexing capabilities and potential privacy and security issues.

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Search Engines

Presented By,
Aswathy Gopinadhan
2nd Sem MBA
 Search engines are programs that search
documents for specified keywords and returns a
list of the documents where the keywords were
found.
A search engine is a coordinated set of programs that includes:
 A spider (also called a "crawler" or a "bot") that goes to
every page or representative pages on every Web site that
wants to be searchable and reads it, using hypertext links on
each page to discover and read a site's other pages
 A program that creates a huge index (sometimes called a
"catalog") from the pages that have been read
 A program that receives your search request, compares it
to the entries in the index, and returns results to you
HOW SEARCH ENGINES WORKS
 Crawling  Displaying
Follow links to find information Find a good format for the
 Indexing information
 Serving
Record what words appear where.
 Ranking Handle queries, find pages, display
results
What information is a good match to
a user query?
What information is inherently good?
 Spiders
To find information on the hundreds of millions of Web pages that exist, a
search engine employs special software robots, called spiders, to build lists
of the words found on Websites.
 Crawling
When a spider is building its lists, the process is called Web. In order to build
and maintain a useful list of words, a search engine’s spiders have to look at
a lot of pages and it is called as crawling.
HOW TO USE/BUILD SEARCH ENGINE
 Be Specific
 Use the + symbol and – symbol
 Use Quotation marks
 Combining symbols
BOOLEAN SEARCHES

 Uses Boolean operators to combine words and make the search more specific
for the user.
 And
 Not
 Followed by
 Near
 Or
TYPES OF SEARCH ENGINES

 Crawler Based search engines


 Directories
 Specialty search engines
 Hybrid search engines
 Meta search engines
CRAWLER BASED SEARCH ENGINES

 These type use a spider or crawler to search the Internet. The crawler digs
through individual web pages, pulls out keywords and then adds the pages to
the search engine’s database.
 Best when you have specific search topic.
 Google, Yahoo, Ask.com
DIRECTORIES

 Directories depends on human editors to create their listings or the database.


 Yahoo Directory (www.yahoo.com)
Open directory (www.dmoz.org)
SPECIALTY SEARCH ENGINES

 They help the user search in different areas in specific types of lists that are
specialized in specific topic that would be beneficial for narrowing down the
searching process.
 Ask Jeeves (question and answer search engine)
Medhunt (provides only medical information)
HYBRID SEARCH ENGINES

 Uses both crawlers and directory searches to obtain their results


 Yahoo.com
Google.com
META SEARCH ENGINES

 These transmit user-supplied keywords simultaneously to several individual


search engines to actually carry out the search
 Result returned from all the search engines can be eliminated and additional
features such as clustering by subjects within the search results can be
implemented.
 Dogpile
Metacrawler
MAJOR SEARCH ENGINES

 Google
 Yahoo
 Askjeeves.com
 Bing
 Dogpile
 AltaVista
 AOL-
GOOGLE
 Found by Larry Page and Sergey Brin
 Began in January 1996 as a research project.
 Basically searches for the websites that contains the search topic but not
always the specific topic
 The technology is called as pigeon rank, a system for ranking web pages
developed by Google founders at Stanford University
YAHOO!
 Founded by David Filo and Jerry Yang in January 199 as young graduates from
Stanford University created a website called “David and Jerry's Guide to the
World Wide Web”.
 In April 1994, renamed it as Yahoo!
 Provides Internet communication services such as Yahoo! Messenger and Yahoo!
Mail, and social networking services such as My Web, Yahoo! Personals, Flickr,
Yahoo Maps, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo groups,etc.
 Uses Yahoo Search technology(YST)
 A single search gives immediate results from a database that is updated daily to
capture newly created and changing pages.
 Provides quick and intuitive access to the wide variety of information available on
the web.
ASK.COM

 A question and answer focused search engine.


 Founded in 1998 by Garrett Gruener and David Warthen in Berkeley, California.
DOGPILE

 Began operation in November 1996 created and developed by Aaron Flin and
later sold to Go2net.
 Search engine that fetches results from Google, Yahoo! And other popular
search engines
ADVANTAGES
 Enable to quick search to vast amount of information from one search box
 Search on a specific type or piece of information is possible
 Different types of search engines enable to look for specific types document
DISADVANTAGES

 Creates information overload


 Semantic search is not possible
 Privacy and security is of concern
 Makes everyone to dependent
LIMITATIONS

 Can not index the entire web. Most of the search engines can only index
between 40% and 60% of the Web.
 Can not index sites governed by passwords and developed using frames.
INTERESTING FACTS

 Most search engines have vanished


 Google is a big player
 63% of Internet users use a search engine in a given session
 Approximately 94million adults use the internet on an average day
 This means approximately 59.22 million people use search engines in an average
day.
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