War of Search Engines

War of Search Engines

Submitted by Group 13

Saurabh Vijay (43 A)

Soumiran Banerjee(45 A)

Swati Jain (47 A)

Table of Contents

Section | Title | Page No. |

1 | | |

1.1 | Introduction | 3 |

1.2 | Search engine: definition | 3 |

1.3 | Evolution of Search Engines: ARCHIE | 4 |

1.4 | Working of a Modern Day Search Engine | 6 |

1.5 | Future Concepts | 8 |

1.6 | Economics of a Search Engine | 9 |

2 | | |

2.1 | Existing Web Search Engines | 11 |

2.2 | Basic Search mechanism | 13 |

2.3 | Key features and differentiators | 17 |

2.4 | Market-share | 19 |

3 | | |

3.1 | Future Plans Of Various Players | 21 |

3.2 | Upcoming Players | 26 |

3.3 | Next is What: Search Engine Evolution | 30 |

4 | | |

| References | 31 |

1.1 Introduction

The good news about the Internet and its most visible component, the World Wide Web, is that there are hundreds of millions of pages available, waiting to present information on an amazing variety of topics. The bad news about the Internet is that there are hundreds of millions of pages available, most of them titled according to the whim of their author, almost all of them sitting on servers with cryptic names. When you need to know about a particular subject, how do you know which pages to read? If you're like most people, you visit an Internet search engine.

If you use search engines for searching, you've probably wondered how they choose which of the million hits to display first.  If you've ever tried to get your site listed in a search engine, you've probably wondered how to get your site listed first so people will be able to find your web site.

1.2 Search engine: definition

Internet search engines are special sites on the Web that are designed to help people find information stored on other sites. There are differences in the ways various search engines work, but they all perform three basic tasks:

* They search the Internet -- or select pieces of the...