Search Engine
Search Query
a query that a user enters into a web search engine to satisfy his or her information needs.
Search Engine
a set of programs which are used to search info and collate info to the database
Phrase Search
best way to find info is to search two or more words in a different order
World Wide Web
different from anything we know, easy to find things fast
Individual Factors
different results from different search engines
Relavancy
frequency of keywords determine if the search will be relevant to your query
String
group of terms also called search query
Off-Page Factors
harder for web masters to create but can have a huge effect on page rank depending on the search engine
Crawling
process of systematically going from web page to web page, it looks for new content
Searching
the engine examines the index and provides a list of best-matching web page according to its criteria
Click-Through Measurements
the frequency in which users select to click a web link to sites from those identified by a specific search string
Terms
the words you enter in a search box in a search engine
Indexing
then program indexes info pulling out specific keywords to categorize it
Web Spider
web search engines and some other sites use Web crawling or spidering software to update their web content or indexes of others sites' web content
Algorithm
will determine if whether the webpage if relevant to the keyword in the search