Friday, November 28, 2008

And a few more Internet Q's 27/11/2008

....And a few more q's just to finish up the day

How do search engines rank the stuff they find on the internet, who or what, makes one page (that you might get in your search results) more useful than another one, so that it is put at the top of your search results?

Search Engines rank 'hits' according to their relevance to your original search - the most relevant hits are ranked higher (as are ones provided by advertised sites) and the ones that lack in relevance are ranked lower. 

what are some of your favourite search engines? why do you like one more than others?

I am a big fan of google - they have a huge database of information and it is user friendly and easy to navigate around. Google also has Google Scholar and Google Books which are excellent sources of academic information. 

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