What Are Search Engines

What Are Search Engines?

Search engine is the term often used to describe both crawler-based search engines and directories. Search Engines and directories gather their listings in totally different ways. At Digital Catapult, we focus on crawler-based search engines. Crawler based search engines create their listings by "crawling" or "spidering" the web. If your web pages change, crawler-based search engines eventually find these changes, and that affects how you are listed. Page titles, body copy and other things all play a role in the decisions that search engine make. How do search engines work, is a topic for another page.

Examples of Search Engines include:

Human-powered search engines (directories) rely on humans to submit information that is subsequently indexed and catalogued. Only information that is submitted is put into the index.

Examples of Human-powered search engines (directories) include:

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