Suggested Search Engine Optimization Articles

This section contains a collection of recommended readings on search engines and search engine optimization.

Major Search Engines and Directories
Article explains how major search engines work.

Metacrawlers and Metasearch Engines
Unlike regular search engines, Meta search engines send out the search query to be analyzed by a number of other search engines and then combine the results.

Search Engine Sizes
Compares index size of major search engines and discusses advantages and disadvantages.

The Web Robots Page
Although this page is rapidly getting outdated with the increase in the number of active user agents, it is still informative.