2006-08-30 20:55:52 · 9 answers · asked by samir s 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
Yahoo has a web crawler program that keeps on crawling in the World wide web and it indexes web pages as it visits them and stores this index on the yahoo servers. When you enter a key word to search yahoo searches this index file and retrieves the appropriate links. This index is a stored in a way that make searching and retrieval fast.
2006-08-30 21:01:29 · answer #1 · answered by Y Raghavendra Reddy 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hi, its not browsing through those pages, yahoo/googlejust search the indexes they created earlier from the pages. Thats how Google Desktiop works as well.
2006-08-31 03:58:59 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
actually it is just 20 or 30 results yahoo search in sec but just give the figure i miiliion or so when you go to next page it takes sec and give you 30 more not billion right?
2006-08-31 04:21:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
they have super spies to secretly look everywhere for answers on the age of 6:00 pm when the sundial is on a 45 degree angle. get it now?
2006-08-31 04:11:35 · answer #4 · answered by Jerome 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your computer takes that long? Try rebooting to see if it will search faster.
and it's not Mexicans lookin all over the web, they can't read English.
2006-08-31 04:18:44 · answer #5 · answered by pappy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Data base
2006-08-31 03:57:46 · answer #6 · answered by Stars-Moon-Sun 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they have millions of mexicans working for a few dollars a week that hitchhike all over the world looking at ppl's computer screens thru their windows when they are on break from cutting grass.
2006-08-31 03:58:43 · answer #7 · answered by hondacobra 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/search-engine.htm
2006-08-31 04:04:29 · answer #8 · answered by Life after 45 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because it uses key words not the whole sentence.
2006-08-31 04:00:58 · answer #9 · answered by -^-Smooth C-^- 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋