How Search Engines Work

How does a search engine find websites?

• Looks through the entire web.
• Looks through that companies index of website.
• Looks up only safe, verified sites
• Accesses only site hosted by that company

How do search engines find the websites that it indexes?

• You have to submit your website.
• By searching the web.
• The get a list from the government
• By using spiders to move from link to link finding pages.

What kind of questions are used by the search engine to find web pages that are pertinent?

• How many people like this page?
• How many pictures does it have?
• Is the page quality or spammy? 
• What is the page name? 

You can improve your page ranking by paying Google money.

• True
• False

The more words in your search, the better your results will be.

• True
• False

Every word counts.

• True
• False

Word order doesn't matter.

• True
• False

To make sure a word IS NOT included, what operator do you use?

• +
• -
• "   "
• OR

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• Ads
• Filters
• URL
• Snippet

What are these?

• Ads
• Snippet
• Filters
• Title