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When you sit down at your computer and do a Google search, you're about instantly presented with a account of after-effects from all over the web. How does Google acquisition web pages analogous your query, and actuate the adjustment of seek results?

In the simplest terms, you could anticipate of analytic the web as searching in a actual ample book with an absorbing basis cogent you absolutely area aggregate is located. When you accomplish a Google search, our programs analysis our basis to actuate the a lot of accordant seek after-effects to be alternate ("served") to you.

The three key processes in carrying seek after-effects to you are:


Crawling
Crawling is the action by which Googlebot discovers new and adapted pages to be added to the Google index.

We use a huge set of computers to back (or "crawl") billions of pages on the web. The affairs that does the attractive is alleged Googlebot (also accepted as a robot, bot, or spider). Googlebot uses an algebraic process: computer programs actuate which sites to crawl, how often, and how abounding pages to back from anniversary site.

Google's clamber action begins with a account of web page URLs, generated from antecedent clamber processes, and aggrandized with Sitemap abstracts provided by webmasters. As Googlebot visits anniversary of these websites it detects links on anniversary page and adds them to its account of pages to crawl. New sites, changes to absolute sites, and asleep links are acclaimed and acclimated to amend the Google index.
Google doesn't acquire transaction to clamber a website added frequently, and we accumulate the seek ancillary of our business abstracted from our revenue-generating AdWords service.

Indexing
Googlebot processes anniversary of the pages it crawls in adjustment to abridge a massive basis of all the words it sees and their area on anniversary page. In addition, we action advice included in key agreeable tags and attributes, such as Title tags and ALT attributes. Googlebot can action many, but not all, agreeable types. For example, we cannot action the agreeable of some affluent media files or activating pages.

Serving results
When a user enters a query, our machines seek the basis for analogous pages and acknowledgment the after-effects we accept are the a lot of accordant to the user. Relevancy is bent by over 200 factors, one of which is the PageRank for a accustomed page. PageRank is the admeasurement of the accent of a page based on the admission links from added pages. In simple terms, anniversary hotlink to a page on your website from addition website adds to your site's PageRank. Not all links are equal: Google works harder to advance the user acquaintance by anecdotic spam links and added practices that abnormally appulse seek results. The best types of links are those that are accustomed based on the superior of your content.

In adjustment for your website to rank able-bodied in seek after-effects pages, it's important to accomplish abiding that Google can clamber and basis your website correctly. Our Webmaster Guidelines outline some best practices that can advice you abstain accepted pitfalls and advance your site's ranking.

Google's Accompanying Searches, Spelling Suggestions, and Google Suggest appearance are advised to advice users save time by announcement accompanying terms, accepted misspellings, and accepted queries. Like our google.com seek results, the keywords acclimated by these appearance are automatically generated by our web crawlers and seek algorithms. We affectation these suggestions alone if we anticipate they ability save the user time. If a website ranks able-bodied for a keyword, it's because we've algorithmically bent that its agreeable is added accordant to the user's query.