Every modern search engine will follow the pattern shown here. What makes one engine better than another, and there is a lot of difference, is what is inside each of the boxes. Following this post, each of the blocks will be detailed sufficiently to understand the internal details in the next … [Read more...]

Diving into the block diagram from the previous post, here we expose some of the internals of the first block in the diagram. Each of the concepts presented here, you will find described in greater detail in the next chapter. … [Read more...]

Immediately following spidering, is the real guts of the search engine. This is where Google initially made its greatest innovations. Although, as we will see in later chapters, much of the more recent innovations — say the last 10 years — have been ancillary to the core ranking algorithms. … [Read more...]

In the beginning, this would likely the very simplest portion of Google. That's not true today. There are so many things going on after the ranking step, that this component of the search engine is just as important to search engine optimization, as is the core algorithm. … [Read more...]