Manab Chetia, Aniruddha Mazumdar, Jugapratim Gohain, Biswajit Choudhury, Aniruddha Deka,
Mridul Jyoti Roy
Assam Engineering College, Jalukbari, Guwahati, Assam
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Abstract— The purpose of this paper is to study different search engines’, their advantages and cons. In this paper we have compared the two most popular search engines i.e. Google and
Yahoo, how they are different from each other in terms of technology, user experience and performance. Although there are other search engines available in the web but they are not so popular among common people and their ranking of pages, search content are not so much liked by people. That’s why we have limited our study and comparison in this paper only to the giants like Google and Yahoo.
B. Other Search Options Available with Google:
Keywords—search engines, technology
I. INTRODUCTION
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HE Internet was invented as the ARPANET[1] .There were only four nodes or computers connected to it. But today it has increased to such as a huge amount that no one will be able to remember the name of all the nodes or the websites. Today for a single topic there are almost thousands of websites, which contain the information about it. It is impractical to remember these websites. Search engines play their role and eased our job. If someone wants to know about a topic, typing the query and clicking the search button, provides the list of websites matching the searched query.
It is the list of the results or the ranking of pages makes each search engine unique. Google uses Page Rank and more
200 algorithms to give good results. Bing was designed to understand natural language queries.
Search Engines like Google, Bing [10], Yahoo have become a part and parcel of our life. We use them in our day life without considering the performance or technological differences between them.
e.g. Google displays