"Billions and billions" of websites.
There are a lot of websites out there. Like stars on a cloudless night, there are so many. So many you may have flashbacks to Walter Cronkite narrating your trip through Spaceship Earth. The truth is, there are too many to really know anything about most of them.
So what do search engines do? They use robots! Robots that manually call up every website on the Internet and “read” it. These “web spiders,” as they’re called, pick out items to categorize and classify websites in order to allow search engines to give you the results you want. I google “Spaceship Earth,” and Google finds all the websites and images out there that fit that set of keywords. The question we’re going to answer here is, “What are the basic items that search engines use to categorize your website?” Read the rest of this entry »
