How does a search engine work?

[Cyril30]

How does a search engine work?

[soleseriouss]

Search engines work by crawling hundreds of billions of pages using their own web crawlers.

[Electrum]

Google uses three key processes to find, store, and rank pages for users: Crawling: discovering and scanning new pages. Indexing: processing and adding pages to the search engine's repository. Serving results: matching search queries to the most relevant pages in the index. Let's explore each of these in a little more detail.