- How Google Search works
Google Search is a fully automated search engine that uses software called web crawlers to find pages for its index.
- Information retrieval
Information retrieval (IR) is finding material, usually documents, of an unstructured nature, usually text, that satisfies an information …
- Metasearch engine
A metasearch engine sends a query to several other search engines at once and merges their results into one list.
- Organic search
Organic search refers to the results a search engine ranks on its own and that nobody pays to place.
- Search algorithm
A search algorithm is the set of rules a search engine uses to select pages for a query and put them in order.
- Search engine
A search engine is a program that finds documents for a query and sorts them by estimated relevance.
- Search engine submissionHistorical
Search engine submission means registering a website with a search engine so that it appears in results.
- Search intent
Search intent (also user intent) is the goal a person has when typing a query into a search engine.
- Search operators
Search operators are characters and keywords, such as quotation marks or site:, that narrow a query in a search engine.
- Search query
A search query is the input a person gives a search engine to find information, usually typed words, but also spoken questions or images.
- SERP (search engine results page)
SERP stands for search engine results page, the page a search engine such as Google or Bing shows in response to a query.
- Web directoryHistorical
A web directory is an online catalog of websites organized into categories and subcategories.