What is Search engine?


Search engine refers to the online programs which searches for documents and data related to a particular keyword. When a user is searching for any information then he can feed the related keyword into the search engine. The program then searches through the available online data and comes up with a list of websites that contains the keywords. These are called as hits and can include images, document file, web pages and other things.

The information or the hits that is listed by the search engine is on the basis of the ranking. The website that contains the keywords and relevant information and has good web traffic is generally listed on the top of the list. This is why all the websites prefer to get good ranking with search engines as that helps them to reach out to the target consumers.

In order to get a ranking, the website needs to make use of the right keywords and should get good traffic. They can also refer to the search engine’s guidelines related to this and employ advertisement campaign which can popularize their website. Hiring a good web development company that understand the online media and is aware of search engines and their guideline would turn out to be very useful in this regard.