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  2. ProQuest Dialog - Wikipedia

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    Dialog is an online information service owned by ProQuest, who acquired it from Thomson Reuters in mid-2008. [1] [2] Dialog was one of the predecessors of the World Wide Web as a provider of information, though not in form. [3] [4] The earliest form of the Dialog system was completed in 1966 in Lockheed Martin under the direction of Roger K ...

  3. Evaluation measures (information retrieval) - Wikipedia

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    Evaluation measures for an information retrieval (IR) system assess how well an index, search engine, or database returns results from a collection of resources that satisfy a user's query. They are therefore fundamental to the success of information systems and digital platforms.

  4. Search engine - Wikipedia

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    The first internet search engines predate the debut of the Web in December 1990: WHOIS user search dates back to 1982, [8] and the Knowbot Information Service multi-network user search was first implemented in 1989. [9] The first well documented search engine that searched content files, namely FTP files, was Archie, which debuted on 10 ...

  5. List of academic databases and search engines - Wikipedia

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    Access cost Provider(s) Bioinformatic Harvester: Biology, Bioinformatics: A meta search engine for 50 major bioinformatic databases and projects. Project appears to be not available anymore. Free Liebel-Lab KIT from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology: citeULike: Computer science: Not available. Ceased operations as of March 30, 2019 Free ...

  6. Information retrieval - Wikipedia

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    Information retrieval is the science [1] of searching for information in a document, searching for documents themselves, and also searching for the metadata that describes data, and for databases of texts, images or sounds. Automated information retrieval systems are used to reduce what has been called information overload. An IR system is a ...

  7. BRS/Search - Wikipedia

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    BRS/Search is a full-text database and information retrieval system. BRS/Search uses a fully inverted indexing system to store, locate, and retrieve unstructured data. It was the search engine that in 1977 powered Bibliographic Retrieval Services (BRS) commercial operations with 20 databases (including the first national commercial availability of MEDLINE); it has changed ownership several ...

  8. Search engine (computing) - Wikipedia

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    Search engines discover, crawl, transform, and store information for retrieval and presentation in response to user queries. The search results are usually presented in a list and are commonly called hits. The most widely used type of search engine is a web search engine, which searches for information on the World Wide Web. A search engine ...

  9. Search engine indexing - Wikipedia

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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 interdisciplinary concepts from linguistics , cognitive psychology , mathematics, informatics , and computer science .