A spider program is an algorithm that a search engine uses to
find results that might be useful later. It finds a website and
visits any hyperlinks (links to another website) and then
follows the hyperlinks from that site and so on until it has
visited every website. Ths is why it doesn't take hours to load
search results: the computer already has them saved!
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Computers infer what you mean by using AI programming. For instance, if you
searched for Travel To Mars, it would automatically get rid of anything to do
with the Roman god Mars using information from the other words in your
search.
Filter search
Search engines look for keywords in the title of the website or the actual content of
the website. This is how search engines decide what to put at the top of the page and
what to put further down.
How to narrow a search
File type
To narrow your results, add a file
type-like pdf-into your search to limit the
results to that type of file
Key words
Only use necessary words in your search. For example, instead of
typing "the very best toys for children aged 5", search for "top toys
5-year-olds"
Search settings
Use search settings to narrow your results even further. You can say specific words
that have to be included in the website, a range of numbers that have to be
included, words that can't be included and many more.
Updates
You can set a search to have results that have been last updated within a
certain range of time like the last five years or the last moth, or something
even more specific.