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How Search Engines Work By Danny Sullivan, Editor October 14, 2002 The term search engine is often used generically to describe both crawler-based search engines and human-powered directories. These two types of search engines gather their listings in radically different ways. Crawler-Based Search Engines Crawler-based search engines, such as Google, create their listings automatically. They crawl or spider the web, then people search through what they have found. If you change your web pages, crawler-based search engines eventually find these changes, and that can affect how you are