An online presence with a hypertext resume can make your skills known to thousands, while you remain comfortably indoors. The registration strategy you select depends on whether the search engine indices or catalogs its database. These methods will affect how your resume is retrieved during a search. Engines like AltaVista and Infoseek collect and index every word found on every Web document.
Search results indicate whether one or more of the search terms appears within a Web page.
When a spider visits your resume's URL, it will record the full text of its page. They employ teams of reviewers to evaluate a site for overall quality of presentation, information, and ease of navigation. Melissa Wisner's Search Engines and Their Descriptions and WebCrawler's discussion on WWW Robots, Wanderers, and Spiders are two excellent resources on these topics. There are several ways you can control how a search engine will index your site to ensure your potential readers can find your hypertext resume. Since most keyword indices do not perform any content analysis, keyword indexers assign relevance scores to the pages in the search results.