Foreword
Preface
1 Search: Reflection Consciousness and Connecting Commerce
The Mission of Search Engines
The Market Share of Search Engines
The Human Goals of Searching
Who Searches and What Do They Search For?
Determining Searcher Intent: A Challenge for Search Marketers and Search Engines
Navigational Queries
Informational Queries
Transactional Queries
Adaptive Search
Searcher Intent
How People Search
How Search Engines Drive Ecommerce
The Mobile Shift
The History of Eye Tracking: How Users Scan Results Pages
Click Tracking: How Users Click on Results (Organic Versus Paid)
Distribution of Search Results and Traffic
Conclusion
2 Search Engine Basics
Understanding Search Engine Results
Understanding the Jayout of Search Results Pages
Understanding How Vertical Results Fit into the SERPs
Google's Knowledge Graph
Algorithm-Based Ranking Systems: Crawling, Indexing, and Ranking
Crawling and Indexing
Retrieval and Ranking
Evaluating Content on a Web Page
Understanding What Content Search Engines Can\