So, what is a search engine and what does it do?
(and can I run my own search engine on my domain an analysis)
Search engine is a program or a tool that searches for the information on the Internet based on the words which user insert into the search box. After the words are inserted into the search box and when you click on search button the search engine looks into its own database to find out whether it contains those information which the user is actually looking for.
There are many major search engines of the web. Why are these considered to be “major” search engines? Because they are either well known or well used like Google and Yahoo. But then, there are lots of other search engines as well, for eg: DogPile is a search engine that is based on MetaSearch (a search engine pulling out results from other search engines) also among those who are TRUE search engines (Search engines having their own database/index are search engines like Exalead & Dhoondho.
Among the newer search engines, Dhoondho is a fast growing search engine. It has a very useful feature for developers called as a Search API. Using these Software...