Friday, 12 August 2016

The Mission of Search Engines

Invention of Search engines

The Mission of Search Engines
  • A disruptive event An event that has changed something in a fundamental way.
  • Search engines generate revenue primarily through paid advertising. The great majority of this revenue comes from a pay-per-click (or costper-click) model, in which the advertisers pay only for users who click on their ads.

  • HOW Google Earns...?
    • About 89% of Google's US$66 billion in revenue came from advertising. Yeah you heard right, it's advertising, and again advertising. Google's majority revenue comes from two advertising platforms — Google AdWords and Google AdSense.

  • Search engines’ success depends so greatly on the relevance of their search results.
  • Search engines invest a tremendous amount of time, energy, and capital in improving their relevance.

The Human Goals of Searching
  • The basic goal of a human searcher is to obtain information relevant to her inquiry.
  • search rankings is developing a thorough understanding of the psychology of your target audience.
  • Experience the need for an answer, solution, or piece of information. (Types of Query).
  • Formulate that need in a string of words and phrases (Query) .
  • Execute the query, check the results.

Types Of Query
  • Looking for a website (Navigational Query)
  • To buy something (Transactional Query)
  • To learn something (Informational Query)

The Human Goals of Searching