Secret Exposed: How the Google Search Engine Really Works
Friday, November 14th, 2008While we don’t often think about - or care - how Google works, it is very essential for marketer who is using SEO, or natural search marketing for their business to understand the basic principles that drive the Google search engine.
In simple terms, there are three main parts to Google: Googlebot, The Indexer, and the Query Processor. Understanding how each of these three parts works is very important to online businesses, believe it or not. Let’s take a look at each of the Google elements to see how they work.
Googlebot is the search engine spider that visits your website and spiders your pages. It isn’t an actual spider, of course.
It actually works more like a web browser by calling a server, requesting pages, and downloading them - just as you do when you open your web browser, type in an URL, and the page loads.
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