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Google says submitting your website is not necessary and "Google
finds most of its pages when our robots crawl the web and jump from page to page via hyperlinks.
The best way to ensure listing on Google is for a page to be linked from lots of other pages.
Google's order of results is automatically determined by several factors, including our patented
PageRank algorithm."
Google says: "The heart of
our software is PageRank™, a system for ranking web pages developed by our founders
Larry Page and
Sergey Brin at Stanford University. And while we have dozens of engineers working to improve
every aspect of Google on a daily basis, PageRank continues to provide the basis for all of our
web search tools."
Google says: PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link
structure as an indicator of an individual page's value. In essence, Google interprets a link
from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer
volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes
cast by pages that are themselves "important" weigh more heavily and help to make other pages
"important."
Google says: Important, high-quality sites receive a higher PageRank, which Google remembers each time it
conducts a search. Of course, important pages mean nothing to you if they don't match your
query. So, Google combines PageRank with sophisticated text-matching techniques to find pages
that are both important and relevant to your search. Google goes far beyond the number of
times a term appears on a page and examines all aspects of the page's content (and the content
of the pages linking to it) to determine if it's a good match for your query.
Yahoo!
says:
"The goal of Yahoo! Search Technology is to discover and index all of the
content available on the web to provide the best possible search experience to users. The Yahoo!
Search index, which contains several billion web pages, is more than 99% populated through the
free crawl process. Yahoo! Search crawls the web every 2-4 weeks and automatically finds new
content for indexing. If pages already in the Yahoo! Search index link to your site, it will be
considered for inclusion in the next update of the index. Getting your site listed in major
directory services such as the Yahoo! Directory
and DMOZ is an excellent way to be sure that
there are links pointing our crawler to your site."
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