Google

Google has increased in popularity tenfold the past several years. They have gone from beta testing, to becoming the Internet's largest index of web pages in a very short time. Their spider, affectionately named "Googlebot", crawls the web and provides updates to Google's index about once a month.

During an index update, the www.google.com database usually takes 2-4 days to settle the results. Until then your results will differ. During the early phases of an update, while the www.google.com results shuffle, you can visit http://www2.google.com to see the updated stable database.

Google, by far, has a very good algorithm of ranking pages returned from a result, probably one of the main reasons it has become so popular over the years. Google has several methods which determines page rank in returned searches. Lets go over some ways to help you improve your listing in Google.