A web search engine is designed to search for information on the World Wide Web and FTP servers. The search results are generally presented in a list of results often referred to as search engine results pages (SERPs). The information may consist of web pages, images, information and other types of files. Some search engines also mine data available in databases or open directories. Unlike web directories, which are maintained only by human editors, search engines also maintain real-time information by running an algorithm on a web crawler.

Contents

• 1 History
• 2 How web search engines work
• 3 Market share
• 4 Search engine bias
• 5 See also
• 6 References
• 7 Further reading
• 8 External links

Verb

search (third-person singular simple present searches, present participle searching, simple past and past participle searched)

1. (transitive) To look in (a place) for something.

   I searched the garden for the keys and found them in the vegetable patch.

2. (intransitive, followed by "for") To look thoroughly.

   The police are searching for evidence in his flat.

3. (transitive, now rare) To look for, seek.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.vi:

     To search the God of loue, her Nymphes she sent / Throughout the wandring forrest euery where [...].

4. (transitive, obsolete) To probe or examine (a wound).
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book I:

     ther they refresshed hem as wel as they myght, and made leches serche theyr woundys and sorowed gretely for the dethe of her peple [...].

   • 1588, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, II.3:

     Now to the bottome dost thou search my wound.

Synonyms

• (transitive: look throughout (a place) for something): comb, scour
• (intransitive: look thoroughly): look for, seek, comb, scour

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• AOL Search (3)
• Ask (4)
• Bing (8)

• Google (183)
• Looksmart (12)
• Yahoo (7)

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• Academic (17)
• Family Friendly (10)
• Open Source@ (20)

• Pay Per Click@ (30)
• Regional (0)
• Specialized (107)

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• Articles (5)
• Marketing@ (1,401)
• Providers (17)
• Robots (10)
• Sitemaps (17)

See also:

• Computers: Internet: Web Design and Development: Hosted Components and Services: Site Search (18)
• Computers: Software: Internet: Servers: Search (39)

• Visvo
  visvo.com
  Search engine with its own crawler. It provides ample information about the documents and the queries.
• SearchHippo
  searchhippo.com
  Indexes sites listed in the major internet directories. Offers free web services, including a search toolbar, and code for webmasters to provide search boxes on their sites.
• Scrub The Web
  scrubtheweb.com
  Search engine with sponsored links at the top of results. Also offering a meta tag builder and analyzer.