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1st, 2nd, and 3rd generation search engines

By admin - Last updated: Sunday, June 20, 2010

The first generation based the search on what was on the Web page. Important factors, like keywords density and title. Meta tags had an important role, keywords in the domain name, and also some keywords in the URL. Search engines started looking like yellow pages. The second generation based the page ranking on related links; [...]