How Indexing Works
- Crawling: Search engines use bots (crawlers) to visit web pages and follow links to other pages.
They gather information about the content on those pages.
- Processing: Once a page is crawled, the search engine processes its content.
This includes analyzing text, images, and other media, as well as assessing the page’s structure, keywords, and metadata.
- Indexing: After processing, the search engine stores the page in its index, a massive database of all the web pages it has crawled.
This index is what the search engine uses to return results to users when they perform a search.
- Ranking: When a user searches for something, the search engine retrieves relevant pages
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