Basics
A complete learning series for search engine basics, organized from information retrieval and document models to PageRank, ranking metrics, machine learning, and SEO ethics.
5 articles in this series
Search Engine Importance
Understand the importance of search engine technology for finding reliable information, making decisions, learning, and helping businesses get discovered.
Parts of a Search Engine: How the Four Core Components Work
Learn how crawling, indexing, query processing and ranking, and results presentation work together as the four core parts of a search engine.
Web Browser vs Search Engine: A Clear Guide to What Each Does
You open Chrome, type a question into the bar at the top, and receive a page of Google results. Because the whole action happens in one window, it can feel as if Chrome found the information. In fact, two different tools just worked together.
20 Best Search Engines for Privacy, Research, AI, and Everyday Search
The search engine built into your browser may be convenient, but it is not your only route through the web. Another service may protect more of your search activity, surface a different set of pages, understand a regional language better, calculate an answer, or search academic literature without mixing it with ordinary websites.
Create Your Own Search Engine with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
A search box that does nothing is easy to build. A useful search tool needs more: content to search, a matching method, a way to rank results, and a clear results page. The good news is that you can learn all of those basics with one HTML file before deciding whether your website needs a larger search system.
