Search Engines
How do search engines rank the stuff they find on the internet?
Early search engines (e.g. Excite or Altavista ) ranked pages based on page content and formatting and based on the content of metadata tags. Attention was apparently paid to bold text or to keywords and summaries in the head of the HTML document.
Google ranks by how frequently other sites link to you, not by what you do or don't say on your site. Basically your popularity is what counts. They also use what is on your site to determine whether your page is of relevance. Of course its techniques are ever changing though.
Other search engine companies are merely competing with Google and are mostly already incorporating many of Google's techniques to improve their own results
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?
A direct, plain-text link from a site with a high Google rank will increase any businesses / advertisers own Google rank
What are some of your favourite search engines?
Why do you like one more than others?
www.google.com
4 comments:
haha thanks, I had fun doing it. I nearly got banned from wikipedia tho - they didnt send me the nicest message hahaha! I like that pic at the top of this blog, have you started your essay?
Thats so funny.I have emailed Chris as I have been working hard on Big Brother ( I painted the comby van and made the rope tree they all swing on!)and I am not sure where to begin with the essay.Have I missed much?
haha thats so cool, well to be honest - I have been busy with music alot lately, so I suppose we are in the same boat. How was your weekend?
Was working...Had to finish something on Big Brother that is a secret..I have been working every day for the last 4 weeks..Very tired
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