What is Indexing?

[glstechserve]

Hello Friends,

Please tell me what is indexing.

[Ha Nguyen]

In order for your site's contents to be included in the results of your custom search engine, they need to be included in the Google index. The Google index is similar to an index in a library, which lists information about all the books the library has available.

[seojennifer]

When bots or crawler arrives your web pages & store in own database means indexing. what are you thinking ?

[juliana]

If we type any keyword in any search engine, then we see a lot of results of the different sites and all of these results are shown because they indexed by this search engine.

[PeterGenesis]

An index is another name for the database used by a search engine. Indexes contain the information on all the websites that Google (or any other search engine) was able to find. If a website is not in a search engine's index, users will not be able to find it.

[robert4u]

Indexing and saving data is different thing, to make the searches fast we create index of database, its similar to cache. Also indexing means to crawl the website if you are talking about search engine.

[jaysh4922]

Indexing is the process of creating indexes for record collections. Having indexes allows researchers to more quickly find records for specific individuals; without them, researchers might have to look through hundreds or thousands of records to locate an individual record.

[wordpar]

Indexing refers to the organization of data according to a specific schema or plan.

[Sumit_Kumar]

Indexing is a process when SE crawlers go through the different website on the web to discover new domains, content on the website and submit to the SE database for the index.

[Sojan Babu]

Indexing means the information searched by many people and find it useful then google stored it permanently in the databases.