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Search Engines: Google, Bing and their competitors

Author: Olivier ANDRIEU

Publication date: April 10, 2022, Review date: February 29, 2024

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Search engines are part of our daily digital life and are essential hubs for seeking information on the Internet. What are the main ones? How do they work? This article describes the different phases of information processing used by tools such as Google or Bing: web crawling, page indexing, relevancy criteria analysis and use of in page / off page rating and display of the results.

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Search engines punctuate the digital lives of today's Internet users. Essential crossroads for any investigation on the Web, they have evolved considerably from the first tools (Excite, Webcrawler, Lycos, Altavista, etc.) to the current leader, Google, and its challenger, Bing, which very few competitors are currently able to match. In any case, it's worth taking a closer look at how these tools work and how they've evolved over the years, as knowledge of what we can find "under the hood of the engines" can also help us to better carry out our Web searches...

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Robot   |   search engine   |   Google   |   Bing


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