What is Search?

Searching can be defined as to look at, read, or examine some collection of information. With search engines, this pertains to looking up information on the internet. Searching is often associated with filter bubbles Common search engines that are widely used today include Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask Jeeves, Yaidu as well as others.

Search works and can theoretically be capable of picking up all sixty trillion individual pages on the internet. Creators of search engines made it so users can search for a particular page or website based on the content that they have, as well as other factors. The search engine keeps all of these pages information in something called "The Index", which contains over one-hundred million gigabytes of data. Search engines also contain algorithms that are implemented through a programming language. The text that the user searches for is than queried through the index for documents that are relevant to the thing the user searched. Google, for example, then uses two hundred factors to list the documents on the page in a particular order. New algorithms are being developed everyday to make search engines more effective at finding information/pages that users desire.

Google tries to prevent spam from appearing on their search results. If they detect that certain documents (HTML pages) contain spam messages, those pages will be removed. There is a protocol that Google uses when detecting spam, which often includes contacting the site owner to see if they will change the spam content themselves.