About this book

The importance of search

Search has been the most important user-centric function of the Web since its first appearance back in the 90s. Without search, and the search engines, the Web wouldn’t have been anywhere as popular as it has become.

Today, there is roughly one billion websites on the Internet, of which most are crawled, indexed and made available by the various search engines.

Google, the world’s most used search engine, is leading the way in this field.

In 1999, it took Google 30 days to crawl and index 50 million pages. In 2012 it took less than a minute, and today it takes seconds.

Google processes over 60.000 searches every single second, translating to nearly six billion searches every day, and further two trillion searches every year.

Making yourself available

On average, a person conducts 3-4 searches every single day, which means that over 1.7 billion people around the world use a search engine every single day to find the relevant information they are looking for.

Taken into consideration the number of websites available