If you are a developer, designer, small business owner, marketing professional, website owner, or thinking of creating a personal blog or website for your business, then you need to understand how search engines work.<\/p>\n
Having a clear understanding of how search works, can help you create a website<\/strong><\/a> that search engines can understand, and this has a number of added benefits.<\/p>\n It\u2019s the first step you need to take before even dealing with Search Engine Optimization<\/strong><\/a> (SEO) or any other SEM (Search Engine Marketing<\/strong><\/a>) tasks.<\/p>\n In this guide, you’ll learn the three main processes (crawling, indexing, and ranking) that search engines follow to find, organize, and present information to users.<\/p>\n Have you ever wondered how many times per day you use Google or any other search engine to search the web?<\/p>\n Is it 5 times, 10 times or even sometimes more? Did you know that Google alone handles more than 2 trillion searches per year?<\/p>\n The numbers are huge. Search engines have become part of our daily life. We use them as a learning tool, a shopping tool, for fun and leisure but also for business.<\/p>\n It\u2019s not an exaggeration to say that we reached a point that we depend on search engines for almost anything we do.<\/p>\n And the reason this is happening is very simple. We know that search engines<\/strong><\/a> and in particular, Google has answers to all our questions and queries.<\/p>\n What happens though when you type a query and click search? How do search engines work internally and how do they decide what to show in the search results and in what order?<\/p>\n\n
What does a Search Engine Do?<\/h2>\n