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What is search engine?

If you are reading this article, hope you found this on Google, Yahoo, Bing or others. Do you know, what they are? They are also a search engine. So you previously knew what is search engine. But there are some information and knowledge you might not know. So here you are.

Search engine is a different type of software. Which provides us a service of easy seeking You can call it only Engine.Because, services are provided by any engine and a search engine provides us a service of seeking something on a huge platform,  called internet.

We know Google,yahoo,bing. But search engines have also various types and categories. You tube,facebook etc are also in it's species. But the difference between You  tube and Google that You tube only show results, based on video, whatever you searched for.

General Knowledge about Search engine

Again we know about world book named Facebook.It is basically a social media but it is also used as a search engine. Suppose, we search a name of a man.

So, Facebook will show the people related to that name. So we can also call it a search engine as it shows results like Google, Bing, Yahoo, Yandex or another search engine.
If we try to say in a sentence,  what search engines actually are, so we will have like this-"Search engine is  a specialized software which shows us results of targeted keywords all over the internet."

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How any search engine works?

Usually a search engine targets  your keywords which you used to search something.
There are three functions and they drive search engine as a wheel drive a car.

• Fetching data from all the web sites  serving the internet
• Reshape data as different categories.
• Showing Results to surfer's search through that categorised   data is use of search engine

How any search engine works?-Dynamically

Crawling

Web page Crawler, in the search engine optimisation, named spiders or bots, is previously designed program that follows Google’s algorithm by looking at the content material and construction of pages.

Data mining

When the bot returns, it gathers all the info of Total webpages, reserves in HTML and sends to It's main server. It is called cached version of the webpage

Indexing 

Collecting, parsing, and storing data to provide fast and accurate retrieval of content through search, called Caffeine which is a huge database of discovered URLs by bots.

Query processing

Search engines have to serve rapidly increasing amount of data, high query loads and tight performance constraints. The success of a search engine depends on the speed of answering queries and the quality of given answers.

5 Most Popular Search Engines in the World

Google

According to Wikipedia, In 1997, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Scott Hassan developed Google search.

Google Search Engine started it's journey to serve text in publicly accessible documents offered by websites and other sources. That can be image, video, article and so on. Google published "Voice Search" in 2011. So the customers can easily say to google what to search instead of typing.

Google is the most popular search engine all over the giant world. Every month a higher amount of people search different things on Google. It's nearly about 79 billion people according to Clever solution.

Yahoo

Taiwanese-American Jerry Yang and American David Filo founded Yahoo in 1994. It was one of the pioneers of the Internet age in the early nineties.

In August 2020, It became at 11th position in Alexa rank Globally. It is the second popular search engine by holding 9.4 billion per month. It is mostly used in Taiwan, the UK, Brazil, and India.

Bing

Known as Microsoft Bing, capable of 40 different languages, created and owned by Microsoft, lauched in June 2009.

It's Alexa ranking is 30th. It serves 4.1 billion people monthly by providing web, video, image and map.

Yandex

Yandex company was founded by Arkady Volozh, Arkady Borkovsky and Ilya Segalovich. But Yandex search engine was published by CompTek 23 years ago.

In 2015, it achieved 51.2% traffic from Russia region. According to Clever-Solution it is driving 92% recently. But it also used in Ukraine, China, Belarus, and Germany.

DuckDuckGo

Gabriel Weinberg lanuched DuckDuckGo in 2008, probably 12 years ago. In this October it is ranking 158th in Alexa.

It's tagline is Privacy-Simplified. DuckDuckGo doesn’t track or save of any user's search activities. It is serving mostly USA, Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, and China Citizens.