Search Engine

Search Engine - What is a Search Engine?

A search engine is a database that is built by spiders or robots. These systems called spiders, spider the Internet reading web pages and logging information.

This information is saved in the database. The delay can be from a few days to months depending on the search engine. Search engine spiders can view hundreds of thousands of pages every day.

Many of them will also follow the links on a page to find your web sites theme. This is why some pages have been indexed by a spider even though you have not submitted the page to the search engine. It is also important keep all linked pages in the same theme.

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Yahoo/Overture merger complete.
(October 8 2003)

Yahoo! announced the completion of Yahoo!'s acquisition of Overture. As a result of the merger, Overture is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Yahoo!.

This means that Yahoo! is now the proud owner not only of its own directory (Yahoo!) and search engine (Inktomi), but also of a pay-per-click text ad provider, Overture, and Overture's two regular search engines, AltaVista and AlltheWeb.

Overture is expected to merge AltaVista and AlltheWeb into one search engine shortly. It is unclear, however, whether Yahoo! would like to joint the Inktomi and AltaVista/AlltheWeb teams, in order to develop another unified search engine.