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  2. Proximity search (text) - Wikipedia

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    In text processing, a proximity search looks for documents where two or more separately matching term occurrences are within a specified distance, where distance is the number of intermediate words or characters. In addition to proximity, some implementations may also impose a constraint on the word order, in that the order in the searched text ...

  3. Help:Searching/Features - Wikipedia

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    Like a word or phrase search stemming and fuzzy searches can apply. A word input can be put in double "quotes" to turn off stemming. A phrase input can use greyspace to turn on stemming. A single word input can suffix the tilde ~ character for a fuzzy search. A single word input can suffix the star * character for a wildcard search.

  4. Full-text search - Wikipedia

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    In the search stage, when performing a specific query, only the index is referenced, rather than the text of the original documents. [2] The indexer will make an entry in the index for each term or word found in a document, and possibly note its relative position within the document.

  5. Help:Searching - Wikipedia

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    To get to the search page, perform an empty search (press ↵ Enter while in the search box before typing anything else in), or click on the Search button. The link Special:Search , which can be inserted onto user pages or project pages, for example, also leads to the search page.

  6. Search engine indexing - Wikipedia

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    In a larger search engine, the process of finding each word in the inverted index (in order to report that it occurred within a document) may be too time consuming, and so this process is commonly split up into two parts, the development of a forward index and a process which sorts the contents of the forward index into the inverted index.

  7. Index term - Wikipedia

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    Most web search engines are designed to search for words anywhere in a document—the title, the body, and so on. This being the case, a keyword can be any term that exists within the document. This being the case, a keyword can be any term that exists within the document.

  8. Phrase search - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrase_search

    Phrase search is one of many search operators that are standard in search engine technology, along with Boolean operators (AND, OR, and NOT), truncation and wildcard operators (commonly represented by the asterisk symbol), field code operators (which look for specific words in defined fields, such as the Author field in a periodical database ...

  9. String-searching algorithm - Wikipedia

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    For example, one might search for to within: Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. One might request the first occurrence of "to", which is the fourth word; or all occurrences, of which there are 3; or the last, which is the fifth word from the end.