SEARCH ENGINES

-K.Hariharan

WHAT IS A WEB SEARCH ENGINE?A web search engine is a software system that is designed to search for information on the World Wide Web. The search results are generally presented in a line of results often referred to as search engine results pages (SERPs). The information may be a mix of web pages, images, and other types of files.

GLOBAL MARKET SHARE

Search engine Market share in July 2014

Google 68.69%

Baidu 17.17%

Yahoo! 6.74%

Bing 6.22%

Excite 0.22%

Ask 0.13%

AOL 0.13%

GOOGLING GOOGLEGoogle is an American multinational corporation specializing in Internet-related services and products. It was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. These include online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, and software.

WHY GOOGLE IS THE BEST? Google provides the best relevant results of the search query at the top.

Definitely, Google is the best search engine ever because of its following properties: 

It is very simple to use than other search engines 

It is very fast, reliable, user friendly and easy to use 

lesser ads in information area 

Its algorithm brings most relevant information on the top of the list 

Ads are also relevant to the topic 

It is a crawler based search engine so no chance of manual interruption and the database is sizeable and information is collected through crawler.

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