What is the final operation performed by a search engine to present results?

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A search engine moves through stages: it crawls the web to gather pages, indexes them so they can be searched quickly, and then, when you enter a query, ranks the relevant pages by how closely they match. The final action you see is the display of those results on the results page. Ranking orders the results, but the actual user-facing step that completes the process is displaying them. So displaying results is the last operation, after crawling, indexing, and ranking.