Dov Bechhofer is a computer engineerwith several years experience in web development who has explained about howGoogle’s algorithms index web pages are helping in order to rank higher onsearch results. He further says that Google is the world’s leading searchengine with over a billion search queries made around the world every day. Withsuch a large database cataloging as many of the internet’s accessible pages,Google’s algorithms must constantly change and improve to provide the mostaccurate results.
Dov Bechhofer further explains thatthe exact methods and rules behind Google’s constantly updated algorithms arekept secrets to deter companies and cyber attackers from manipulating theresults. He further says that most of these changes are small and don’t have amajor impact on the way Google catalogs web pages.
Dov Bechhofer further says that all webpages collected by Google are scoured and reviewed by “crawlers” or code botsthat “crawl” through all the available text on a page, from code and filenamesto content, to determine a page’s relevancy. These crawlers will follow linksfrom each web page to see how credible their sources are. They will alsoeventually follow all the links from other websites that lead back to thisspecific page. He further says that in order to make Google more secure severalresearch are still going on.