The future of search engines

The technology adopted by current search engines is still considered as a new technology. Was introduced in 1998 as an advancement towards the old search methods, the web search today is still a very young technology with a great opportunity for growth. This essay will cover some indications for future growth of the current search engines.

Clustered search results
Most search engines available on internet nowadays are still not able to overcome the problems of keyword synonymy and polysemy [1]. For example, imagine that there is a user who wishes to find information about Cocomo beach located in Fiji island and enters the keyword ‘cocomo’ into a search engine. This unfortunate user will certainly be jolted with plenty of less relevant web-pages such as pages about Cost Constructive Model which is a model used for developing software in IT. 

Search engine: how does it work?

Before we can ensure that our websites being listed among the highest positions, we must first understand how search engines work. A search engine consists of four different modules that are assigned with their own tasks.

Figure2. Elements of a Search Engine [1]