Such factors include the frequency of the query keywords in the pages, whether the keywords appear in the title of the pages, the relative font sizes of the keywords compared to the rest of the document, etc.

Infocious also uses link-based properties of the Web pages in order to rank the pages. Pages that are highly linked are (in most cases) considered more important than pages with fewer incoming links.

In addition to the above, we leverage our linguistic analysis technology to return pages of greater quality to the users. More specifically, we incorporate the information that our linguistic analysis algorithms are generating into our ranking algorithm. At a high level, if a page is composed of well-written textual content, it will be promoted, while the opposite will happen for a page with poor textual content. Of course, our algorithms take into account that some pages contain only Flash, PDF files, images, etc.

Infocious recognizes that a successfull search engine goes hand-in-hand with webmasters providing qualitative content on the Web. However, since the ranking that Infocious uses is completely automated, we cannot guarantee any specific (or good) ranking for your site. In addition, our index evolves along with the Web and as such your rankings may change from time to time.

• Use well-formed HTML within the pages of your site. Our crawlers and indexers parse the downloaded pages to find more links and index keywords for your site. Although we make every effort to make our algorithms as robust as possible, well-formed HTML will help our system not to miss any important keywords and/or links from your site (due to, for example, malformed tags).
• Use well-written text within your pages. Make sure that the topic discussed on your page is clear and well-presented. Our algorithms perform linguistic analysis on the Web pages to identify the texts that answer the user's query in the most clear way.
• Consider adding a site-map to your site. This will help our crawler to find and index all of your pages.
• Consider submitting your site's URL to our system so that we can schedule your site for crawling. You can submit your site's URL by using this form.
• Please consider using a reasonable number of outgoing links from every page. A page with 2 million outgoing links is not useful to any user.
• Make sure that you allow our crawler to index your site. This can be done through the robots.txt file. If you have questions regarding our crawler you can visit our crawler page for more information.