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