Love Letters To Google: What is a Search Engine?

If you’re asking this question, then you got your hands on the wrong reading material. And, honestly, I don’t even know how to tell you where to begin. It conjures up a snake-eating-its-tail recursive nightmare of me explaining search engines to my grandmother by instructing her to Google it.

In the spirit of customer service, however, here are some resources you might want to investigate in order to break into the world of search engineering.

Talk to your twelve-year-old nephew, but persist even after he tsks and rolls his eyes at you.

Fire up your Amiga and post a bulletin requesting information from the SysOp.

Visit your local bookstore and purchase, “The Internet: Scary, Perverse or Impenetrable?”