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Xpress was originally developed by Dash Optimization, and was acquired by FICO in 2008. [3] Its initial authors were Bob Daniel and Robert Ashford. The first version of Xpress could only solve LPs; support for MIPs was added in 1986. Being released in 1983, Xpress was the first commercial LP and MIP solver running on PCs. [4]
Firefox has Wikipedia listed as a default search engine and can be set to such. It also has a keyword search function which allows the search engine to be changed when a certain keyword is typed to trigger such. To set Wikipedia as the default search engine: Click the hamburger menu and go to the 'Options' menu. In the options menu, click on ...
License SA 3.0 and the GNU Free Documentation License 1.2 Recoll: Linux, Unix, Windows, macOS: Open-source desktop search tool for Unix/Linux GPL [8] Spotlight: macOS: Found in Apple Mac OS X "Tiger" and later OS X releases. Proprietary Strigi: Linux, Unix, Solaris, Mac OS X and Windows: Cross-platform open-source desktop search engine.
A search plugin provides the ability to access a search engine from a web browser, without having to go to the engine's website first. Technically, a search plugin is a small text file that tells the browser what information to send to a search engine and how the results are to be retrieved.
A search engine normally consists of four components, as follows: a search interface, a crawler (also known as a spider or bot), an indexer, and a database. The crawler traverses a document collection, deconstructs document text, and assigns surrogates for storage in the search engine index.
It was the first search engine that used hyperlinks to measure the quality of websites it was indexing, [27] predating the very similar algorithm patent filed by Google two years later in 1998. [28] Larry Page referenced Li's work as a citation in some of his U.S. patents for PageRank. [29] Li later used his Rankdex technology for the Baidu ...
Chrome periodically retrieves updates of two blacklists (one for phishing and one for malware), and warns users when they attempt to visit a site flagged as potentially harmful. This service is also made available for use by others via a free public API called "Google Safe Browsing API". [29] Chrome uses a process-allocation model to sandbox ...
Introduced in 2005, it is a way for websites and search engines to publish search results in a standard and accessible format. OpenSearch was developed by Amazon.com subsidiary A9 and the first version, OpenSearch 1.0, was unveiled by Jeff Bezos at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference on 15 March 2005.