Sapo

Sapo is the portuguese internet portal that presents for users the widest spectrum the internet of services. It is both social networks and different information and news. Among services a portal gives to the users and searchability of necessary resources in Network.

Internet a portal was worked out by the Portuguese programmers at the beginning of 1998, as a social network. The searching functions of portal were taken only to the search within the framework of these social networks. Gradually the scopes of necessary information retrieval broadened with expansion of functions of portal. Since 2002, when the scopes of search broadened notedly, a portal had begun to use for realization of search the own searching machine, that was worked out at the use of the principles stopped up in basis of work of searching machines of Teoma and HotBot.

A search engine of Sapo is мета by the searching system and limit inquires the results of search of the systems uses that. However to the row analogical to searching services the system gives fast access.

To advantages of this searching system it is necessary to take circumstance that a search comes true on keywords and phrases of взависимости from rating of resources in the system. This rating straight depends on visited of resource users, id est, than higher visited of web-site, the higher his place in a search. 

Attracts attention and originality of interface users, and similarly possibility of receipt of concomitant information from other divisions of portal, for example, of news or statistical information.

To not sufficiencies of the searching system Sapo it is necessary to take hard oriented of the system to the internet space of Portugal. The searching machine of Sapo is index first of all the Portuguese resources or resources with the Portuguese domen. Codeindexing of pages of resources passes slowly, and it pushes away from the system of both users and developers of web-sites.

In a word, in completion about the search engine of Sapo it should be said, that this resource is oriented for users exceptionally one country is Portugal and unacceptable for the users of other countries.