Search Engine Processes and Components
Modern search engines perform the following processes:
• Web crawling
• Indexing
• Searching
This section presents an overview of each of these before you move on to
understanding how a search engine operates.
Web Crawling
Web crawlers or web spiders are internet bots that help search engines update their
content or index of the web content of various websites. They visit websites on a list
of URLs (also called seeds ) and copy all the hyperlinks on those sites. Due to the vast
amount of content available on the Web, crawlers do not usually scan everything on a
web page; rather, they download portions of web pages and usually target pages that are
popular, relevant, and have quality links. Some spiders normalize the URLs and store
them in a predefined format to avoid duplicate content. Because SEO prioritizes content
that is fresh and updated frequently, some crawlers visit pages where content is updated
on a regular basis. Other crawlers are defined such that they revisit all pages regardless
of changes in content. It depends on the way the algorithms are written. If a crawler is
archiving websites, it preserves web pages as snapshots or cached copies.
Crawlers identify themselves to web servers. This identification process is required, and
website administrators can provide complete or limited access by defining a robots.txt
file that educates the web server about pages that can be indexed as well as pages that
should not be accessed. For example, the home page of a website may be accessible
for indexing, but pages involved in transactions—such as payment gateway pages—are
not, because they contain sensitive information. Checkout pages also are not indexed,
because they do not contain relevant keyword or phrase content, compared to category/
product pages.
If a server receives continuous requests, it can get caught in a spider trap . In that
case, the administrators can tell the crawler’s parents to stop the loops. Administrators
can also estimate which web pages are being indexed and streamline the SEO properties
of those web pages.
Googlebot (used by Google), BingBot (used by Bing and Yahoo!), and Sphinx (an
open source, free search crawler written in C++) are some of popular crawlers indexing
the web for their respective search engines.
Indexing
Indexing methodologies vary from engine to engine. Search-engine owners do not
disclose what types of algorithms are used to facilitate information retrieval using
indexing. Usually, sorting is done by using forward and inverted indexes. Forward
indexing involves storing a list of words for each document, following an asynchronous
system-processing methodology; that is, a forward index is a list of web pages and which
words appear on those web pages. On the other hand, inverted indexing involves locating
documents that contain the words in a user query; an inverted index is a list of words and
which web pages those words appear on. Forward and inverted indexing are used for
different purposes. For example, in forward indexing, search-engine spiders crawl the
Web and build a list of web pages and the words that appear on each page. But in inverted
indexing, a user enters a query, and the search engine identifies web pages linked to the
words in the query.
During indexing, search engines find web pages and collect, parse, and store data
so that users can retrieve information quickly and effectively. Imagine a search engine
searching the complete content of every web page without indexing—given the huge
volume of data on the Web, even a simple search would take hours. Indexes help reduce
the time significantly; you can retrieve information in milliseconds.
Forward indexing and inverted indexing are also used in conjunction. During
forward indexing, you can store all the words in a document. This leads to asynchronous
processing and hence avoids bottlenecks (which are an issue in inverted indexes). Then
you can create an inverted index by sorting the words in the forward index, to streamline
the full-text search process.
Information such as tags, attributes, and image alt attributes are stored during
indexing. Even different media types such as graphics and video can be searchable,
depending on the algorithms written for indexing purposes.
Search Queries
A user enters a relevant word or a string of words to get information. You can use plain
text to start the retrieval process. What the user enters in the search box is called a
search query . This section examines the common types of search queries: navigation,
informational, and transactional.
Navigational Search Queries
These types of queries have predetermined results, because users already know the
website they want to access.
Informational Search Queries
Informational search queries involve finding information about a broad topic and are
more generic in nature. Users generally type in real-time words to research or expand
their knowledge about a topic.
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