Search engines in the world

Product / Service Description

a  search engine  is software usually accessed on the internet that searches a datebase  of information according to the user' s  query. the engine provides a list of results that best match what the user is trying to find. today there are many different search engines available on the internet each with their own abilities and features. the first search engine ever developed is considered archie which was used to search for  ftp files and the first text-based search engine is considered veronica. today the most popular and well-known search engine is google. other popular search engines include  ask.com    baidu bing and  yahoo.

most popular search engines in the world (updated 2019)

• google
• bing
• yahoo
• ask.com
• aol.com
• baidu
• wolframalpha
• duckduckgo
• internet archive
• yandex.ru

according to netcraft the web statistics organization the internet hosts over 625 million active websites as of the time of publication. search engines such as google and bing are the keys to finding the answers you seek in this huge mass of data. a search engine surveys sites and builds a database organized according to their content. when you type a few descriptive words in the search engine' s home page it finds and displays a list of matching sites ranked by relevance.

time savings

a search engine saves you time in two ways: by eliminating the need to find information manually and by performing searches at high speeds. without a search engine you would have to look at sites one by one and pore over the contents of each carefully & ndash a tedious prospect. a search site automatically compares your criteria to billions of web pages and gives you results in a fraction of a second. you can perform dozens of searches in the course of a few minutes altering the criteria as you narrow down results.