1How do search engines rank the stuff they find on the internet?
who, or what, makes one page (that you might get in your search results) more useful than another one, so that it is put at the top of your search results?
2what are some of your favourite search engines? why do you like one more than others?
1. Basically, something most relevant will rank higher. For example, in conversation, Jack talked Maggie, Mike talked Maggie, Nick mentioned Maggie as well, so Maggie must be popular. In internet, link most like 'quote', in B website linked A = in conversation B mentioned A, if C,D,E,F all mentioned A, so, A is the important one, thats A will be rank highest. Thats called pagerank rate, if you wanna check your pagerank rate, you can click this google free toolbar: http://toolbar.google.com/.
Of course, for Google, or Yahoo some commerical searching engines, they will rank these websitle based on bid fees.
2. I usually use Google as my first search engine. Beacuse it briefly and concisely, at the same time, there are lots of extra function in google, such as maps, GPS, translate tools. Anyway, I am Chinese, when I serch for Music, Video, or picture, I always have another choice.
