How many times do you search the web daily? 5, 20, 50? If Google is your search engine of choice, … See more

The mighty web server! A web server is what your computer contacts every time you search a URL in your browser. Your browser acts as a client, sending a request, similar to a … See more

If you are building a search engine, the crawler is where you spend a good chunk of time. The crawler browses the open internet, starting with a predefined list of seeds (e.g… See more

Once you have the crawled content saved in a database, next comes indexing! When a user searches a term, they want accurate results quickly. This is where indexing is so important. … See more

PageRank is an algorithm that determines the authoritativeness of a page on the internet. Say someone is searching “Earth Day.” We need to look at how trustworthy a page is. If … See more

You have the main pieces for a search engine now. When a user searches a phrase, you look up which documents have each of the query terms in them. Your database r… See more