What is SEO?...

SEO is a series of methods aimed at improving an internet facing web site in search engine rankings and ultimately drawing in more visitors.  It covers a wide range of activities that can range from the server configuration to the actual content on the pages and who links to them. Optimisation commonly falls into two categories: White hat SEO Black hat SEO White hat SEO are techniques that the search engines themselves...

How Google works...

Google works by having thousands of servers located around the globe. When a user attempts to connect to Google their servers determine which server to direct them to – based on geographical location and traffic load upon those servers. Once a user is connected their search is routed again to the least loaded web server before the search results are returned back. The size of such a network requires dedicated...

A brief history of search engines …...

Search engines started to appear in 1993 to allow people to find web content matching specific criteria (typically those containing a given word or phrase). They provide results typically as a list of references of those sites that match the search criteria. From around 1994 search engines started to index full text from pages but it wasn’t until 1998 when Google was launched that search engines started to get...