Most Search Engines have a function they refer to as “Safe Search” or “Family Safe” which is searches that would be suitable for any age. They use a wide range of words related to nudity or sexual activities as well as racist, radical political or religious views to block the content or have a popup […]
Category: Chapter 03: How Search Works
Country Detection
In Chapter 3, we explain that search engines often use the preferred language and the location of the searcher to help match them to the right results. Some languages, such as English and Spanish, are spoken in multiple countries, so the search engines need to guess at which country pages written in those languages are […]
Language Detection
In Chapter 3, when describing how Search Engines work, we mentioned language filters and, briefly, how search engines detect languages. Search engines use a few methods to detect a searcher’s language preferences: Search Query Language – This is the default. If they can deduce a language from the search query, then they will return results that […]