{"id":13686,"date":"2025-08-12T10:53:47","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T10:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/12\/how-search-engines-work-explained\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T10:53:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T10:53:47","slug":"how-search-engines-work-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/12\/how-search-engines-work-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"How Search Engines Work [Explained]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.semrush.com\/blog\/uploads\/media\/66\/8a\/668ab0493a41fcfdaf74dcb671a73db5\/5bcc2f3f98ef167b20df218df70dd499\/seo-myths.svg\" alt=\"How Search Engines Work [Explained]\" width=\"448\" title=\"| Craig Hordlow\"><\/p>\n<p>Search engines crawl the web, store the discovered content, and then serve the most useful results.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Search engines crawl the web, store the discovered content, and then serve the most useful results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"h5ap_radio_sources":[],"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-semrush"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":false,"author_link":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/author\/craig\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}