Search Engines: Crawling, Indexing and Ranking

Categories: Computing, Key Stage 2
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About Course

How does a search engine find the right pages out of billions in less than a second? Children learn how web crawlers build an index, how results are selected and ranked, how to choose good search terms and how to check whether what they find is trustworthy.

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What Will You Learn?

  • Explain what a web crawler and a search index are
  • Understand that results are put in order (ranked) by the search engine
  • Write better search terms to find answers faster
  • Judge whether a web page is reliable before trusting it

Course Content

Course Lessons

  • Crawlers and the Giant Index
  • How Results Are Ranked
  • Can I Trust This Page?

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