What is Search engine indexing?
'''[[Search engine]] indexing''' is the collecting, parsing, and storing of data to facilitate fast and accurate information retrieval. Index design incorporates many concepts from [[linguistics]], cognitive psychology, [[mathematics]], informatics, and [[computer science]]. An alternate name for the process, in the context of search engines designed to find web pages on the Internet, is web indexing. ==Index design factors== Major factors in designing a search engine's architecture include: * Merge factors * Storage techniques * Index size * Lookup speed * Maintenance * Fault tolerance {{tech-stub}} [[Category:Search engines]]