Meta
Tags
Meta tags were
used to help search engines organize the Web. Documents listed keywords and
descriptions that were used to match user queries. Initially these tags were
somewhat effective, but over...
Monday, February 1, 2016
The Web Origins
Origins
of the Web
The Web
started off behind the idea of the free flow of information as envisioned by
Tim Berners-Lee. He was working at CERN in Europe. CERN had a somewhat web-like
environment in that many people were coming and going and worked on many
different projects.
Tim created a
site...
Interface of Serach
Search
Interface
The search
algorithm and search interface are used to find the most relevant document in
the index based on the search query. First the search engine tries to determine
user intent by looking at the words the searcher typed in.
These terms
can be stripped down to their root level...
Index website
The Index
The index is
where the spider-collected data are stored. When you perform a search on a
major search engine, you are not searching the web, but the cache of the web
provided by that search engine’s index.
Search engines
organize their content in what is called a reverse
index. A reverse...