If a Webmaster does not get his/her web page listed on a search engine automatically, then they might choose to suggest their page to the search engine themselves.

A Meta tag is a small piece html code used by a website to control what a search engine categorises and stores the site as in their database. It basically tells the search engine what you want your page listed as.

Search engines are used by millions of people around the world on a daily basis. They are the easiest and most user-friendly way to find content on the Internet. They provide an invaluable service to the Internet user by providing a huge database of websites that the user can quickly search through. Keywords a user enters into the search box are matched to resources in the sea

Search engines use special indexing software, called robots or spiders, to gather their information. These programs are made to constantly "crawl" the Internet in search of new or updated web pages. They will go through every URL until they have visited every Web site on the Internet.

Also unique are the criteria different search engines use to organize information for its users. Some use a system known as link popularity, listing the results of a user's search according to which sites have the most links from other sites. Other search engines sort results according to the summary information in a site's Meta tags, and others look for common themes used throughout a site. There are many other ways to organise results, and the leading search engines use a combination of several of them.

With so many pages listed in a search engine database it still can be hard to find a particular site just by using keywords. This is remedied by the addition of powerful commands and expressions that can be added to a search request to help decrease the amount of sites to be displayed. One of these methods is the phrase search. This incorporates "quotation marks" to link the words enclosed in them. If a user were to enter the search Chocolate Cookies, without quotation marks, the search engine would look for sites containing both of the words, sites containing the word cookies and sites containing the word chocolate. The Internet being what it is would most likely come up with about five hundred thousand topics, ranging from Internet cookies to pornographic material. If, however, the two words were enclosed in quotation marks, the results would be reduced drastically as the engine only displays the sites containing both the words in succession.

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