How Search Engine works?

How Search Engine works?
Search Engines contain large amount of data.And this data

was spread out in every part of the world on remote web servers.

The problem of locating correct page depends up on Search

Engine algorithm. Different search engines have different algorithms.

For example let us take this keyword “How search engine works“.

When you type This keyword (How search engine works) in google

it shows total 18,400,000 indexed pages. And in Yahoo it shows total 130,000,000 indexed pages. This website computer.howstuffworks.com

takes first place in google for the given keywords ( How search engine works) .

but it shifts to shifts to 3 position for the same given keywords in yahoo.

From this we can understand different search engines have different

algorithms. In order to understand the methods and techniques to

position your website pages for higher ranking in search engines,

the knowledge of the basic functioning of a search engine is must.