Search server: what it is, list, advantages and disadvantages

Search engines help Internet users find the information they need. In the search box, the person enters their query: a search keyword or a collection of keywords. And he chooses from the list the site he likes, which best reflects the essence of the question asked to the search engine. Internet search engines are convenient and modern.

Search Engine Overview

The search engine processes hundreds of gigabytes of information and gives the user the necessary sites in a convenient format of the list of found pages. This list can consist of hundreds of thousands of pages where these words occur. From this all you can already find the necessary information, it can be problematic from time to time. And sometimes you immediately find the right site with the relevant information.

Search engine AltaVista - the most little known search engine in "Runet". Was popular with the English-speaking audience during the launch of the Vista system from Microsoft. Its base is only five hundred and fifty million pages. Four million articles from 15,000 newsgroups inside the Uzenet aggregator. And search by images and other media files, such as video and sounds, is available. The output from the pictures is made in a slightly inconvenient format. They are displayed all with a description of the size when you hover the mouse over the picture.

Open Directory Project - this service, rather, refers to directories than to search engines. But through it search is carried out only on high-quality Internet resources. The work for the convenience of users is carried out by about 38,000 editors, who daily select sites for their catalog.

Search engine WebCrawler - the number of index search service about 1.6 million indexed materials. The project catalog has about 100 000 categories, where almost any site can be identified. The search engine has a common database with another Internet project called Excite, but this project specializes in entertaining traffic, indexing chats and horoscopes.

Lycos - this server has information about 50 million pages. You are prompted to the search server. You can write, for example: "How to write an article for a site", and the search engine will give out the necessary information. Sorted by relevance to your search. Perhaps, among them you will find the right one. Queries are made to the search server for each search engine below.

HotBot - contains information about 55 million pages from all over the Internet. Among them you can find the information you need. For convenience, you can specify the desired geo-position. For example, you are looking for a cafe in a certain city and asking for it. The search engine also searches for sounds, graphics, site scripts, and other non-trivial things that you might need. The server has recently connected to "Uzenet", and the search can also be performed there.

"Google" and "Yaho" - the giants of the search

Search server Google (Google) - for all of the time, about 2 billion pages have been indexed for which the user is searching for content. "Runet" indexed well, but it's better than "Yandex" "Google" did not, because he takes into account the individual features of the Russian language, spelling and spelling of words when searching.

Search Server Yahu (Yahoo!) - has an advanced news service, collected from the media around the world. It indexed about 3 000 000 links. The service is quite well structured. It is one of the first in the world. But it did not become as popular as Google.

Metasystems

In addition to the classical search engines, there are metasystems that search immediately on all systems at once. The results will be presented in a form that is convenient for you. Service "Yandex" - the largest in "Runet" and the first of its kind. After the search engine spread to the CIS countries, because it takes into account the morphology of the language. The program Copernic 2001 has been working for a long time and constantly updates its database from various services. Search can be done by category or by location. Extradition may be tied to the locality from which the request is received.

There is a free and paid version of the service, which is used by more than fourteen million people. The server uses Google for search, Yandex, and others.

"Rambler" and "Yandex" - the largest directories of sites

Rambler is a Russian site that provides services to find the right information on the Internet. The search engine is quite young, but already gaining popularity in Russia and the CIS, there is a catalog and news aggregator, in which a huge number of Russian-language sites are represented. It is the largest in the CIS, after it goes "Yandex", which bypasses it in quality. In "Yandex" to get quite difficult for little-known sites. In "Rambler" the same registration is free for all portals that meet the conditions for accepting the project in the catalog.

Search for files

"FTP-index". It contains information about FTP servers that are used to store and distribute information. But the information in the form of files.

Filez - with its help you can view more than 100 million files located in the index of the file search engine.