07-24-2004, 06:05 AM
Ok this is a weee bit off topic, but I've been wondering for quite some time, and we're talking about the workings of search engines...
I'm pretty sure that search engines have a huge database of websites. The search itself isn't conducted over the entire internet, but only through the catalogued (sic?) websites in storage. If this is true, then how do websites get into the database in the first place? If this whole database thing isn't the way it works, and the serach engine is actually scanning the entire intarweb, how does it work? Does it jump from IP to IP? Wha... :huh:
I'm pretty sure that search engines have a huge database of websites. The search itself isn't conducted over the entire internet, but only through the catalogued (sic?) websites in storage. If this is true, then how do websites get into the database in the first place? If this whole database thing isn't the way it works, and the serach engine is actually scanning the entire intarweb, how does it work? Does it jump from IP to IP? Wha... :huh: