Taxonomy is a way to organize words and ideas into groups. Taxonomy for search engines helps search engines understand what groups of words and ideas should be associated with each other. Search engines use taxonomy to create a hierarchy of related words and ideas, like the branches of a tree, to help them understand the relationship between different sets of words and ideas. When someone does a search, the search engine can use the taxonomy to organize the results into related sets, so that the person will see the most relevant results first.