How Do You Build A Search Engine?
How Do You Build A Search Engine?
It's quite difficult and it takes a lot of time/resources/man power. The easy way, to make it look like you have a search engine, is to create a simple site that basically, queries behind google and displays the same results, maybe in a different style. But to make your own search engine, and make it successful, it's almost impossible without let's say a few million dollars investment.
First, you need a good crawler, a script that parses the internet for all the sites and pages it can find, then you see which page links to which, get their content, analyze the content and try to figure out the main keywords of that page, then compare it to the links that page has and give it a score based on these factors, but that's just the main idea. Google engineers say there are more than 200 or 300 factors that affect a site's ranking... So think about it, 300 things you need to consider to decide a page's ranking
by Beth100 11 years ago
Alright, this is a very basic question (yes, I know it is, but.....) I thought I understood this but the other night, someone told me that indexing has no affect on page ranking. He went as far as to say that he has purchased page ranking from Google, etc. I have not heard of...
by ofmelancholy 13 years ago
When ı search about a topic the first page results are not very high quality material, ordinary stuff. Then what makes them on top page?
by WebbyAvatar 13 years ago
HubPages made a significant upgrade to its payments, bringing on ad networks including Tribal Fusion, AOL’s Advertising.com, Microsoft pubCenter, ValueClick and Glam Media. Previously the site had used Google AdSense and Amazon and eBay affiliate links. The company is also hiring its own ad sales...
by Paul Maplesden 10 years ago
For those of us that want to use HubPages to make a passive income, the main source of traffic to our hubs is through organic Google Search.A few months ago I came across an excellent piece of research from Search Metrics; an exhaustive white paper that correlates and analyzes dozens of different...
by Peter Hoggan 14 years ago
Why is it when people are challenged about the facts or supposed facts they publish in there hubs they simply remove the challenging comment. When someone publishes something that could damage the livelihood of the reader, surely it’s the moral responsibility of someone who knows better to make...
by Marlene Bertrand 11 years ago
Bing or Google? Which search engine do you prefer?I see the commercial on television about how people are choosing Bing over Google as a search engine. I did the "Bing it on" test and my results came out as a draw. What is your experience? Do you prefer Bing or Google?
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