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April 6, 2008
1. How do search engines rank the stuff they find on the internet?
Search engines find pages that are about your key words and try to make the most relevant options appear first.
http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=2167961
2. Who, or what, makes one page (that you might get in your search results) more useful than another one, so that it is put at the top of your search results?
A location/frequency method determines how relevant a page is for your search results. If your keywords are in the title or address of the page, the search engine assumes that it is more relevant, and it is at the top of the results. Also how often the words appear on the page adds to the ranking process.
http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=2167961
3. What are some of your favourite search engines? why do you like one more than others?
My favourite search engine is Google. I think this is because it is very simple and you don’t get distracted by news stories and images as soon as you go on the page. I am always able to find what I am looking for on Google, so I never really need to use any others.
