To reach on the top of search engine sites like Google, Yahoo and MSN might be easy but to stay there is not.
What does it take to reach there and stay there?

Lets begin with knowing what the search engine itself is.

What is a Search Engine?

In earlier days when you were to find something you had to run around the city or rush to your nearest library if it was intellectual data. The world has come to a compete turnover! Today when we are in search of any thing major or sometimes very petty too the immediate action taken is to rush to the internet and pop up the Search Engines. Google being the most widely used one. You just need to type in your search word or phrase and you are generated with hundreds and thousands (or may be even millions) of sites and references that would give you the exact and relevant information to your search. But have you ever thought how one click could generate a million references?

The back end of a Search Engine is not only a little complicated but a very interesting piece to know about. The Search Engine is software which collects information from web pages through its applications. What information is collected by these applications? The content of the entire web page is known through the key words present in it, its URL and the coding that goes into the making of the page and even the various links that get you into the page or to another page out of this. The indexed information is stored in the database.

As we know, the front end of the software is a user interface, and the information that is required by you is entered in the search box through a key word or phrase. The search s triggered by an algorithm that retrieves relevant links from the information existing in the back end database.

There are millions of sites existing on the World Wide Web today, and the count increases by another million every month. Then, how is it so easy for the Search Engine to collect the exact information that you desire? It would be as good as your grey cells working on collecting all the references of a word that would come to your mind. The human brain is probably being left far behind today as Search Engines use agents called robots, crawlers and spiders that look into every URL on the web and collect the key words and phrases that are sent to the database which in return is the fuel for our Search Engine.

Now that I would say is truly fascinating!!!

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