This page contains a representative list of major databases and search engines useful in an academic setting for finding and accessing articles in academic...
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A database search engine is a search engine that operates on material stored in a digital database. Categories of search engine software include: Web...
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Search engines, including web search engines, selection-based search engines, metasearch engines, desktop search tools, and web portals and vertical market...
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the files and databases stored on web servers, although some content is not accessible to crawlers. There have been many search engines since the dawn...
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Inktomi and Direct Hit databases. It was known for its fast results and as a search engine with the ability to search within search results. Upon being bought...
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and a database. The crawler traverses a document collection, deconstructs document text, and assigns surrogates for storage in the search engine index...
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A database engine (or storage engine) is the underlying software component that a database management system (DBMS) uses to create, read, update and delete...
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Veronica was a search engine system for the Gopher protocol, released in November 1992 by Steven Foster and Fred Barrie at the University of Nevada, Reno...
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hits. Database search engine – search engine that operates on material stored in a digital database Desktop search engine – Distributed search engine – search...
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A vector database, vector store or vector search engine is a database that uses the vector space model to store vectors (fixed-length lists of numbers)...
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Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the quality and quantity of website traffic to a website or a web page from search engines...
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Yandex Search (Russian: Яндекс) is a search engine owned by the company Yandex, based in Russia. In January 2015, Yandex Search generated 51.2% of all...
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Google Search (also known simply as Google or Google.com) is a search engine operated by Google. It allows users to search for information on the Web...
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BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) is a multi-disciplinary search engine to scholarly internet resources, created by Bielefeld University Library...
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A database shard, or simply a shard, is a horizontal partition of data in a database or search engine. Each shard may be held on a separate database server...
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Search engine indexing is the collecting, parsing, and storing of data to facilitate fast and accurate information retrieval. Index design incorporates...
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Search engine privacy is a subset of internet privacy that deals with user data being collected by search engines. Both types of privacy fall under the...
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WebCrawler (redirect from WebCrawler (Search Engine))
WebCrawler is a search engine, and one of the oldest surviving search engines on the web today. For many years, it operated as a metasearch engine. WebCrawler...
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Elasticsearch (redirect from Elastic search)
a search engine based on Apache Lucene, a free and open-source search engine. It provides a distributed, multitenant-capable full-text search engine with...
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Microsoft Bing (redirect from Bing (Search Engine))
is a search engine owned and operated by Microsoft. The service traces its roots back to Microsoft's earlier search engines, including MSN Search, Windows...
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works. A visual search engine is a search engine designed to search for information on the World Wide Web through a reverse image search. Information may...
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page provides a full timeline of web search engines, starting from the WHOis in 1982, the Archie search engine in 1990, and subsequent developments in...
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Search engine scraping is the process of harvesting URLs, descriptions, or other information from search engines. This is a specific form of screen scraping...
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OurResearch develops a search engine for open access content in Unpaywall. Others merge with non-bibliographic and scholarly databases to create more complete...
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easily identify specific files. It is considered the first Internet search engine. The original implementation was written in 1990 by Alan Emtage, then...
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Sphinx is a fulltext search engine that provides text search functionality to client applications. Sphinx can be used either as a stand-alone server or...
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full-text search refers to techniques for searching a single computer-stored document or a collection in a full-text database. Full-text search is distinguished...
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Spamdexing (redirect from Search engine spammer)
search engine spam, search engine poisoning, black-hat search engine optimization, search spam or web spam) is the deliberate manipulation of search engine...
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Web crawler (redirect from Search engine spider)
and that is typically operated by search engines for the purpose of Web indexing (web spidering). Web search engines and some other websites use Web crawling...
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needed] The development of the H2 database engine started in May 2004, and first published in December 2005. The database engine was written by Thomas Mueller...
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