Search engines of today and beyond
Lars Våge · KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) · 2002
The major Internet search engines nowadays enable us to search for keywords in vast quantities of web pages. In this article the most important crawler-based search engines are reviewed along with newer ones which are starting to make an impact. Web directories, meta-search engines and the use of sponsored links are considered as well as the future of web searching. The need for faster reindexing of the databases of search engines in order to give users a more up-to-date view of the web is emphasized.