Even Prometheus clients with no prior experience begin publishing their own Web pages after just a few hours. The race for best search engine has focused on size. The bigger the index, the better the search engine. But that is changing. Size competition is turning into a popularity contest.
Search engines use simple rules for displaying the Web sites matching a visitor's search request.
Most effort is spent counting keywords and ranking results according to how many times they are repeated and where they appear on a page. A couple of years ago, two database PhD students at Stanford University developed an alternative search technology called Google. They were not the first to experiment with better ways to determine the best matching Web site in response to a request. However, their success has eclipsed others as search engine guru Danny Sullivan says he can't remember when there has been so much buzz about a search engine. Read the rest.