How does Google differ from other search engines?
laurentvanwinckel asked:
What’s different in general? If you would analyse the same keywords on different search engines, like, Google, Yahoo, MSN Search, what is the major difference? And why would that be?
(I’m asking this question because I’m doing my assignment about Google, so any detailled info is very appreciated)
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Difference between Google and Yahoo
Both being quite fundamentally different to each other. Both have always strived for different goals. Google does global search where as yahoo has its own directory and results are confined to its directory only. Both uses different algorithm to measure the websites. Google has a database that is able to store enough information that can be quickly retrieved whereas Y! & MS are still struggling. More differences are here:
a) Yahoo’s bias towards a higher keyword density
b) Google heavy weighting of incoming links – these two things being as the main differences, and differences that will very often give very different results.
d) They have different markets and different audiences. Yahoo is the “one stop shop” for the web. You can get your news and sports headlines, meet people, chat, email and yes even search.
e) You use Google to search plain and simple. Sure they have shopping and news, but that’s all built around search.
f) Spiders (also called “bots”) move from website to website and page to page by following links. The Google spider (known as Googlebot) does a semi-regular “crawl” into the interior pages of sites that are already in its database.
g) The Yahoo Search index is capturing the full text of web pages, up to a 500K limit. This is greater than the 101K maximum indexed by Google. A broad range of file types, including HTML, PDF, and Microsoft Office documents is also included in the mix.
At the end we can say that Google is truly a learning organization.
rams
13 Jan 09 at 4:44 am
it differs by how many websites it supports and the second part it takes to results come up
FERAS K
14 Jan 09 at 10:01 pm