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This document discusses search engines. It begins with an introduction and then covers the history of search engines such as Archie, Gopher, Jughead and Wandex. It describes how search engines work using spiders and robots to index web pages. It discusses the different types of search engines and how search queries are resolved. Key components of search engines are also outlined. In conclusion, the document states that search engines play an important role in accessing internet content and have made information more accessible online.

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Search Engine

This document discusses search engines. It begins with an introduction and then covers the history of search engines such as Archie, Gopher, Jughead and Wandex. It describes how search engines work using spiders and robots to index web pages. It discusses the different types of search engines and how search queries are resolved. Key components of search engines are also outlined. In conclusion, the document states that search engines play an important role in accessing internet content and have made information more accessible online.

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RAM SAGAR MOURYA

MCA FINAL YEAR


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 INTRODUCTION

 HISTORY

 WORKING

 TYPES OF SERCH ENGINE

 INVISIBLE WEB

 ADVANTAGES

 CONCLUSION
INTRODUCTION
 Search engine is a software program that
searches for sites based on the words that
you designate as search terms.

 Search engines look through their own


databases of information in order to find what
it is that you are looking for.

 “Search engine” is the popular term for an


Information Retrieval (IR) system.
HISTORY
 Archie – First search tool for the Internet

 Gopher – indexed plain text documents

 Jughead – searched the files stored in Gopher


index
systems
 Wandex – first Web search engine
How do Search Engine Works

 Spiders

 Robots
Resolving a Query
 Consider ( cat hat mat )

 Select a word from query ( “cat” )

 Retrieve the list for the word cat

 Process the list and for each document add


weights to the accumulator based on TF,ITF,
doc length.

 Find the best ranked document and look up


the mapping table.
Search Engine Modules :
 • A document processor

 • A query processor

 • A search and matching function

 • A ranking capability

 Summarisng and Presenting documents.


TYPES OF SEARCH ENGINE

 Crawler-Based Search Engines

 Human-Powered Directories

 HybridSearch Engines" Or Mixed


Results
 Google use spiders

 Large index of keywords.

 Google’s PAGE RANK .


1.frequency and location of keywords within
the Web page
2. Web page history.
3. number of other Web pages that link to
the page in question
CONCLUSION:

 Search engine plays important role in


accessing the content over the internet, it
fetches the pages requested by the user.

   It made the internet and accessing the


information just a click away.

 The need for better search engines only


increases

 The search engine sites are among the most

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