Thread:Dunnoob/@comment-25840539-20141101160734/@comment-24253265-20141115123746

I meant the search engines

Search engines (example: Google) crawl the Web with spiders (example: GoogleBot), that is a piece of software looking at all (billions) web pages they know about, because they are linked somewhere. Your wikia main page is linked, don't worry. That's how they also find new pages on your wikia, if those pages are linked from a page they know. Crawling the complete (for spiders visible and interesting parts of the) Web takes months. If pages change often the bots check them more often. If pages are "good" (lots of links from good pages) the search engine shows them for queries about stuff on the given page. You can find more and better info about how on the Wikipedia page(s) about search engines and GoogleBot. If you care about Google you could also join their "web master" program, that gives you an insight why and when and what GoogleBot does on your Wikia.