The Importance of Intranet Search Engines

With the wide use of the Web today, Intranet and Internet search engines have become extremely important tools whose accuracy and scope are depended upon by users. No matter how well sites are designed and organized, finding information would be much more tedious and time consuming if search engines did not exist. These tools allow users to type keywords into a form, press a search button, and get a list of documents that match the keywords.

As simple as this process may sound, many relevant documents may go unexamined because of incomplete indexing of documents, poorly formatted documents, and unspecific queries. To help improve finding information on the Web, this paper will examine 1) the importance of Intranet search engines, 2) how to prepare pages for searching, and 3) how to build more powerful searches.