What is Search Engine?
Search Engine is a software which is designed to search on World Wide Web(www) as per the query of the users.
Important components of search engine are:
- Crawlers or Robots or Spiders
- Indexer
- Search Interface
Web Crawler : This component is used to find information on hundreds of millions of webpages that exists.
Indexer : This component is used to categorize and filter the pages based on content.
Search Interface : The interface with which the user can access the search engine.
How Search Engine Works? (Search Engine Architecture)
Search Engine Architecture
“In old days, instead of asking a teacher, people looked at the dictionary to know the complete definition of teacher. Now Google becomes our teacher and to know about Google, people Google it.”
― Munia Khan.
Some Popular Search Engines:
- Google – Google is an American multinational technology company specializing in Internet-related services and products that include online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, software, and hardware
CEO : Sundar Pichai (2 Oct 2015–)
Founders : Larry Page, Sergey Brin
Founded : 4 September 1998
Headquarters : Mountain View, California, United States
Alexa Rank : 1
- Bing – Bing is a web search engine owned and operated by Microsoft. The service has its origins in Microsoft’s previous search engines: MSN Search, Windows Live Search and later Live Search.
Owners : Microsoft
Founded : 1st June 2009
Headquarters : Bellevue, Washington, United States
Alexa Rank : 35
- Yahoo – Yahoo Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. Yahoo was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 2, 1995.
Founders : Jerry Yang, David Filo
Founded : 2 March 1995
Headquarters : Sunnyvale, California, United States
Alexa Rank : 5
- Baidu – Baidu, Inc., incorporated on January 18, 2000, is a Chinese-American web services company headquartered at the Baidu Campus in Beijing’s Haidian District. It is one of the largest Internet companies in the world.
Founders : Robin Li, Eric Xu
Founded : January 18, 2000
Headquarters : Beijing, China
Alexa Rank : 4
- Yandex – Yandex N.V. is a Russian multinational technology company specializing in Internet-related services and products. Yandex operates the largest search engine in Russia with about 60% market share in that country
Founders : Arkady Volozh, Ilya Segalovich, Elena Kolmanovskaya
Founded : 2000
Headquarters : Moscow, Russia
Alexa Rank : 2,104
- AOL – AOL Inc. is an American multinational mass media corporation based in New York, a subsidiary of Verizon Communications.
Founders : Marc Seriff, Steve Case, Jim Kimsey
Founded : 24 May 1985
Headquarters : United States
Alexa Rank : 261,863
- Ask – Ask.com is a question answering-focused e-business and web search engine founded in 1996 by Garrett Gruener and David Warthen in Berkeley, California. The original software was implemented by Gary Chevsky from his own design
Founders : Garrett Gruener, David Warthen
Founded : June 1996
Headquarters : Oakland, California, United States
Alexa Rank : 97
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