Anatomy Of Search Engine Results

The core goal of a search engine is to return results that are relevant to the particular query submitted. As such it is important to understand the way in which search engine results are presented upon the screen.

1. Query Entry Box
2. No of Possible Documents Currently in the Search Engine index that are considered to be relevant for this particular query
3. Sponsored listing - paid for Result which is seperate form the natural search engine listings
4. Alternative spelling of search query is available - is available when misspellings or onternational language conventions offer alternatives
5. Title of the Result
6. Description of the result - is either the description listed at dmoz.org, description tag of the page or excerpt from the on page content.
7. Date that the page was last cached.
8. If available upon the same domain the search engine may make a suggestion as to what you should consider - this result is indented to show you it is a result from the same site.
9. This link will take you to the cached version of this page.
10. The two results displayed from this URL are what are considered the most appropriate. However more results from this site are relevant to this search and are availble by clicking this link.

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