A search engine is a computer program that searches documents, especially on the World Wide Web, for a specifiec word or words and provides a list of documents in which they are found.
Some examples of search engines are the following next:
Altavista, Yandex, MSN Search, Teoma, Info.com, Google, Ask.com, Bing, Yahoo!, AOL Search, GoodSearch, Volunia, etc. There are multiple engine search more, but some of them are closed o inactive.
Some of the most important and best known are Google, Altavista, Bing, Yahoo! and Ask.com. I will talka bit of some of them.
Google has been estimated to run over one million servers in data centers around the world, and process over one billion search requests and about twenty-four petabytes of user-generated data every day.
Altavista was once one of the most popular search engines but its popularity declined with the rise of Google. In May 2011, Yahoo! shut down the site. Presently, the AltaVista website is up, and it is
stated on the website that they are using the Yahoo search engine.
Search results remain on the AltaVista pages.
Bing was formerly Live Search, Windows Live Search, and MSN Search is a web search engine from Microsoft.
Bing was formerly Live Search, Windows Live Search, and MSN Search is a web search engine from Microsoft.
