SEARCH ENGINES

Search Engines



Search Engines

Introduction

Many people think a search engine is broken or their site is banned if they do not rank in one engine while they rank great in others. This article will hopefully help searchers understand the different relevancy criteria used by different engines. While people have looked at search engine ranking factors on a global level I do not think anyone has spent much time comparing and contrasting how different search engines compute their relevancy scores or bias their algorithms.(Spink,2002)

Discussion

Yahoo!

been in the search game for many years.

is better than MSN but nowhere near as good as ...