Thread: Anyone know how search engines work?

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    Anyone know how search engines work?

    If you go to a search engine like Google for example and type in "pentium", it gives you a list of every document or website on the internet that contains that word. It does this in a split-second. Does anyone know how it manages to search through the entire WWW in that space of time?

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    A web crawler program searches the internet and returns sites with keywords to the central database, which is then used to do the search.
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    So the searching is done all the time and when you type in the word you want , the results come from the database not the web?

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    try here

    found it by doing a search on google for Search Engines! Go figure!

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    Yep, it's all from the central database. As the linkDrakkenKorin posted pointed out, engines like Yahoo! also rely on people telling them to add their web page - but Yahoo! also bases its search off of Google which uses a web crawler.
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    That database is updated very often too.

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    So, how does it search that database so rapidly?
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    bubble sort... lol.
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    With a 14.4 modem to send the results back to you in a hurry.

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