Lesson 7 - Search Engines Flashcards
A service on the internet that allows users to search for content through the world wide web. These are programs that examine documents based on specific words and give a list of documents containing the same keywords.
Search Engine
A list of web results like websites, images, videos, or online data
Search Engine Results Page (SERP)
How do Search Engines work?
Search Engines scan a query in advance and do it continuously each and every day. The search engine looks at each word from the query and finds documents that best match.
A program that gathers information from all websites to help in the delivery of search results.
Spider
Search Engines use these to rank the pages based on what the search engine thinks the user wants.
Ranking Algorithm
The most famous algorithm for choosing relative results.
PageRank algorithm
The idea of optimizing web content to improve a website’s placement in search engine results.
Search Engine Optimization
A type of Artificial Intelligence that lets computers learn things without being programmed.
Machine Learning
The process of interactively searching for and retrieving requested information through a computer from online databases.
Online Research
A form of entrancing web based search results based on the context query provided by the user to search the internet.
Contextual Research
A decision engine designed by Microsoft to help users make decisions faster by providing different search options like Wiki suggestions, visual search and related searches. It was formerly known as MSN Search and Live Search.
Bing
A metasearch engine that provides and compares results from leading search engines while eliminating duplicates. The developers of this search engine even created its own mascot which is a dog named Arfie that acts as a retriever.
Dogpile
An open source search engine that tries to protect the privacy of users without filtering those search results and personalizing them based on the history of the user.
Duck Duck Go
Another web search engine owned by Google that provides users with numerous scholarly literature and academic resources
Google Scholar Search
The most used search engine in the world. It is fast, relevant, and has the largest single collection of web pages. It also tracks an enormous amount of information that people can easily access.
