when a search engine automatically explores websites to collect information

a big catalogue, where search engines store web page information so they can find it later

the order search results appear in, based on how useful and relevant they are

Search engines and results rankings

Computing

In this unit, pupils will explore the technologies that make up the internet and WWW. Starting with an exploration of the building blocks of the WWW, HTML, and CSS. They will construct a fully functioning website and discover how websites are catalogued for effective retrieval by search engines.

Developing for the Web

thinking that they search the whole internet live

believing that they store web page information in an index

assuming that they rank results based on relevance

thinking that they crawl websites automatically

What is a common misconception about how search engines work?

to find and organise web pages for search results

What is the purpose of crawling and indexing?

What determines a web page's ranking in search results?

What term describes data that provides information about a web page?

applying style changes directly to an HTML element

adding styles through an external CSS file

CSS allows centralised styling for consistency.

What is a key benefit of using CSS over inline styling?

`<link rel="stylesheet" href="styles.css">`

Which of the following is an example of inline styling?

Which attribute is used to apply inline styles in HTML?

Which CSS property changes the text colour?

This lesson will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.

Search engines and results rankings

Lesson outcome

This lesson will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.