Semantics is the study of the meaning of words. There are multiple connotations, denotations, and usages for thousands of words, and they could have multiple meanings based on their context and the placement in the sentence. With the currently popular style of web indexing, semantics poses a difficult issue when categorizing a web site. A search for “horror” is going to pull up websites with the word in the text, but a user could be searching for something more specific, such as the literary or film genre, quotes containing the word “horror”, or many other things.

In terms of market share for search engines, Google is, without question, the king. Its use is so wide-spread that “to Google” has become synonymous with “to search the Internet” in the popular English lexicon. However, despite its wide use and overall excellence, it is not the well-spring of all information as some believe it to be.

Almost everyone in the civilized world knows the name Google. What started as a simple internet search engine with new site rating algorithms in 1998 is now a powerhouse with so many facets; it barely resembles the original site which was incorporated in the garage of a friend of creators Larry Page and Sergey Brin.

There is a question on the minds of many though.