In computing, a search engine is an information retrieval software system designed to help find information stored on one or more computer systems. Search...
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limiting a search to specific types of results, such as images, videos, or news. For a search provider, its engine is part of a distributed computing system...
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Search engine is a term commonly used to refer to a web search engine. Search engine may also refer to: Search engine (computing), an information retrieval...
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A search engine results page (SERP) is a webpage that is displayed by a search engine in response to a query by a user. The main component of a SERP is...
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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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A metasearch engine (or search aggregator) is an online information retrieval tool that uses the data of a web search engine to produce its own results...
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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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Without an index, the search engine would scan every document in the corpus, which would require considerable time and computing power. For example, while...
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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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global infrastructure that runs Google's search engine, Gmail, YouTube and other services. Google Compute Engine enables users (utilising authentication...
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Startpage (redirect from Startpage (search engine))
Dutch search engine website that highlights privacy as its distinguishing feature. The website advertises that it allows users to obtain Bing Search and...
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Search query may refer to: Database query Web search query Search engine (computing) This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title...
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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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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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particularly search engines. Search suggestions are common with a 2014 survey finding that over 80% of e-commerce websites included them. The computing science...
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calculated in the search space of a problem domain, with either discrete or continuous values. Although search engines use search algorithms, they belong...
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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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WolframAlpha (redirect from Wolfram (search engine))
WUULf-rəm-) is an answer engine developed by Wolfram Research. It is offered as an online service that answers factual queries by computing answers from externally...
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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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Web search engines are listed in tables below for comparison purposes. The first table lists the company behind the engine, volume and ad support and identifies...
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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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Distributed web crawling (redirect from Distributed search)
Distributed web crawling is a distributed computing technique whereby Internet search engines employ many computers to index the Internet via web crawling...
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Yandex (category Internet search engines)
browser, search engine, cloud computing, web mapping, online food ordering, streaming media, online shopping, and a ridesharing company. Yandex Search is the...
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user a simple way to trigger an event, like searching for a query at a search engine, or to interact with dialog boxes, like confirming an action. A typical...
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Social search is a behavior of retrieving and searching on a social searching engine that mainly searches user-generated content such as news, videos and...
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Image retrieval (redirect from Image search engine)
Journal of Visual Languages & Computing. 24 (1): 53–57. doi:10.1016/j.jvlc.2012.10.008. Image-Net.org VGG Image Search Engine(VISE) : a free and open source...
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BitTorrent (redirect from Torrent Search Engine)
technology in 2004. The first release of the BitTorrent client had no search engine and no peer exchange. Up until 2005, the only way to share files was...
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Database search engine – search engine that operates on material stored in a digital database Desktop search engine – Distributed search engine – search engine...
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The Dragonfly project was an Internet search engine prototype created by Google that was designed to be compatible with China's state censorship provisions...
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Inverted index (category Search algorithms)
2006). "Inverted Files for Text Search Engines". ACM Computing Surveys. 38 (2). New York: Association for Computing Machinery: 6. doi:10.1145/1132956...
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