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Hi,
i have a question about search engines i want to know how do they work technically from the both sides (hardware and software) ? im not talking about the complicated ones like "google" just the little ones like the windows Search or (Finder) in Mac osx

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Walk through the directory structure, looking for files that match the name you input, or that contain data that matches. You can use the grep command (Unix/Linux) to do that. In fact, Linux and Unix have a very neat command line tool called "find" that can handle that very well. I use it for such purposes all the time.

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Search engines use automated software programs knows as spiders or bots to survey the Web and build their databases. Web documents are retrieved by these programs and analyzed.

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