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Posted on 4/27/2008 4:34:27 PM
What is a Search Engine?
A search engine is software that scours the Internet collecting data about every web site and every web page within a web page that it can. Each link that is encountered along the way is added to a list of pages to be scanned. This type of software has a lot of different names like a bot, a robot, a crawler or a spider. It takes all this collected data and stores it in a huge database. When you do a search on a "search engine" you are actually searching its database and not the actual Internet. Like many terms used on the Internet and computers in general this term is often misused and abused. For the sake of our discussion here we'll call the "Search Engine" the piece of software that scours the web day and night.