INTERNET SEARCH ENGINES SYSTEM FEATURES, OPERATORS AND COMPARISONS

Abstract

Internet search engine is a program designed to help find information stored on a computer system such as the World Wide Web (WWW), or a personal computer. Millions of people around the world use i.nternet search engines and use regularly updated indexes to operate quickly and efficiently. Internet search engines work an attempt to match search query with the content of web pages that is has stored, or cached, and indexed on its powerful servers in advance of search. This paper presents a comparison between two of the most popular internet search engines Google and Yahoo according to the system features, time spend in search, number of results and percentage of world searches. Search results show that Google employs a number of techniques to improve search quality including pagerank and anchor text