This chapter will explore the basics of how search algorithms work. If you ask Google what an algorithm is, you’ll discover that the engine itself (and pretty much everyone else) defines it as ...

From Wikipedia: Binary search, also known as half-interval search or logarithmic search, is a search algorithm that finds the position of a target value within a sorted array. It compares the target ...

They enter their query, and search engines look through their index of web pages to find the best matches. Those matches are then ranked by an algorithm and displayed in search engine results ...