Search Engines

What is Search Engine?

Search Engines are primary tools for most of the internet users to find products, materials, services of any form. Search engine lists thousands of products that are in the database of the particular search engine. Different sites are indexed differently in different search engines and when you do a “search” the results are usually different. It is possible that some sites with your desired product might not even show up during a search due to improper indexing or poor indexing by one particular search engine. There are various ways that you can improve the indexing of your website.

In most simple way search engines are websites that search products for you from thousands of websites and list the various websites depending on relevance to your search terms.

Major Search Engines

When we refer to search engines we usually refer to http://google.com for most part. Some people use http://yahoo.com or http://msn.com as thier favorite search engine. There are many  many more search engines that you can use in addition to the three most search engines listed above. Here is a small list of other search engines:

General search engines

Open source search engines

Metasearch engines

Regional search engines

People search engines

Email-based search engines

Visual search engines

Answer-based search engines

Google-based search engines

Yahoo!-based search engines

Windows-Live-based search engines

Ask.com-based search engines

Job search engines

Forum search engines

Blog search engines

News search engines

Multimedia search engines

Code search engines

BitTorrent search engines

These search engines work across the BitTorrent protocol.

Accountancy search engines

Medical search engines

Property search engines

Business search engines

Comparison shopping search engines

Geographic search engines

Social search engines

  • Google Co-op is a platform provided by Google that allows web developers to feature specialized information in web searches, refine and categorise queries, and create customized search engines
  • Rollyo
  • Wink provides web search by analyzing user contributions such as bookmarks and feedback

Search engines for kids

Desktop search engines

Legal

Usenet

Defunct search engines

The list of search engines has been borrowed from .

How Does search engines index your website?

Three major ways search engine works.
1. Algorithms: Different algorithms are used by different search engines. The algorithms are programs that determines the position of various sites after being search for a particular product. The algorithm is different for different search engines.
2. Database: Each search engine has a database whete it stores information as it finds more sites.
3. Spider: A search engine spider is a program (different for different search engines) that goes out all over the internet and constantly collect information.

Will your site show up in the database of a search engine?

It is possible that the spiders will find your website and record information day by day and your site would show up after a search. You can always submit your website to various search engines. It will help spiders to come and index your site. There are many many sites which offer you to submit your website free to numerous search engines. It is always recommended that you submit your site to as many search engines as possible. It may take several months before your site is fully indexed and show up in first page after a search.

Do you want to learn more?

There is an extemely easy easy e-book which you can download for FREE from here: MY SEO GUIDE . It describes the various parts of search engine optimization tips and tricks.