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How Does a Search Engine Work, Roughly?

Nostalgia Back in the early 2000s, when I first got my hands on a proper internet connection at university — studying Electrical Engineering, no less, with a focus on Control Systems — I genuinely believed that typing something into a search engine meant it was out there, live, rummaging through the actual web in real time. Embarrassing, really. Like sending a little scout off into the wilderness and waiting for him to come back with news. Indeed, I thought it was like that! Well, I didn't discuss it with anyone back then. Just searched for materials from the internet, went back glaring at the books and screen, no — Prithee, good fellows, when I didst query Yahoo!, was it truly scurrying about the great web, fetching results in earnest? ⬆️ No. Absolutely not. We were just doing what the curriculum told us to do, no further questions. And in my department, no proper "Search Engine" topic. But the logic underneath — the gates and whatnots — and ...
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