Search engines work by indexing as many servers connected to the web as they possibly can ahead of time. This is called crawling in the industry. The most recent, and most intuitive entrant to the Search engine fray is i-beta.com. I-beta sought, and achieved, to provide a truly international experience for every visitor.

Most internet users have had the occasion to use a search engine. They, however, have either never considered how search engines work, have presumed incorrectly. Search engines do not scour the web the moment a search is executed. It would be almost impossible to search every page on every server connected to the internet and return hits within mere fractions of a second.

Search engines work by indexing as many servers connected to the web as they possibly can ahead of time. This is called crawling in the industry. The results of these crawls are stored in the search provider's server. Search engines use spiders to crawl the web, visiting and reviewing large numbers of pages and sites, both new and old, alike. When users enter a word, phrase or combination of words in the provider's search box, the search is conducted within the engine's servers to find those combinations of words. When users search different engines, often different results are obtained because each search engine currently uses different methods to categorize relevancy, thus indexing differently and interpreting the search differently to provide the indexed sites. Search engine administrators also build value added items around their engines. Some search engines reside within a portal. Others, stand alone and focus on just searching. Some provide email, news entertainment and a whole host of other trinkets to attract users to their sites and remain loyal to their engine.

The most recent, and most intuitive entrant to the search engine fray is i-beta.com. I-beta sought, and achieved, to provide a truly international experience for every visitor. It's a search engine that allows users to customize their landing page to almost any language they choose. I-beta is an uncluttered search-only site that is not imbedded within a portal amidst volumes of data. Its sole purpose is to search, locate and provide results. To this end, developers allows users to specifically search certain categories. For example users can search specifically for images, video, news, sports, audio, forums, blogs, wikis, PDF or Amazon. This automatically reduces the hit results will only include relevant searches to that category.

When searching images, which are notorious for being contaminated with viruses and trojans, i-beta allows users to preview the image in two ways without leaving the i-beta site. The first is a thumbnail, which while small is quite clear. The second Is a larger image view that give more than adequate clarity and visitors can inspect if there are any pop ups or if the site is from a trustworthy administrator.

I-beta also has a program for affiliates and affiliate publishers for there PPC ad network.. This allows participants to earn an income by placing i-beta's customer's advertisements on their site. These advertisements are pay-per-click advertisements where the participants earn when visitors to their site click on an advertisement. This affiliate program is customizable and lets participants choose which advertisements to display on their site.