How do search engines find relevant content?

Question

How does Google find relevant content when it\'s parsing the web?

Let\'s say, for instance, Google uses the PHP native DOM Library to parse content. What methods would t

Answer 1

Most search engines look for the title and meta description in the head of the document, then heading one and text content in the body. Image alt tags and link titles are also considered. Last I read Yahoo was using the meta keyword tag but most don't.

You might want to download the open source files from The Search Engine Project (TSEP) on Sourceforge https://sourceforge.net/projects/tsep/ and have a look at how they do it.