Bing's market share has doubled to 12%, chipping away at Google's dominance. Microsoft Edge's promotion of Bing may have ...

For over two decades, Google has been the search engine that most people use for everyday searches, product research, and staying up to date on the latest news. Because of this market dominance ...

Most indexing is done automatically by Web "spiders ... which is what you query when you do a search. "Metasearch" engines search other search engines and bring you results as if you went to ...

After re-indexing your pages, you will be better positioned to handle future issues. Contributing authors are invited to create content for Search Engine Land and are chosen for their expertise ...

Google CEO Sundar Pichai warned that if a federal judge adopted the Justice Department's proposed remedies, the company would ...

What started off as an antitrust trial about Google's dominance in the search engine market has led to a penalties phase that ...

Robots.txt is by far the most reliable and easiest way to exclude parts of your site from the search engine index. In brief, robots.txt is used to tell search engines not to index content at specific ...

vertical search engines do the narrowing for them. A vertical search site may not always index the Web for content, but may produce links only to proprietary content. It may be relevant ...

Additionally, although I haven’t confirmed this suspicion, I suspect that the answer engines aren’t nearly as quick as Google at indexing breaking news. Other specialized searches that work better in ...

Noindex tags hiding in your site can prevent search engines from indexing your pages. Google's Martin Splitt advises where to look for them. Unwanted noindex tags can block webpages from appearing ...

Librarians spend so much time updating the index that they know what books are most popular and where to find them. Search engines do a very similar job on the world wide web. They send out little ...

Search engine indices are essentially giant databases of pages and information on the web. Google has its own such index, which contains hundreds of billions of webpages and is over 100,000,000 ...