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  2. Full-text search - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full-text_search

    In text retrieval, 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 from searches based on metadata or on parts of the original texts represented in databases (such as titles, abstracts, selected sections, or bibliographical references).

  3. Proximity search (text) - Wikipedia

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    The basic linguistic assumption of proximity searching is that the proximity of the words in a document implies a relationship between the words. Given that authors of documents try to formulate sentences which contain a single idea, or cluster of related ideas within neighboring sentences or organized into paragraphs, there is an inherent, relatively high, probability within the document ...

  4. 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.

  5. Search engine indexing - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_indexing

    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.

  6. Information retrieval - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_retrieval

    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. Help:Searching - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Searching

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

  8. Concept search - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concept_search

    A concept search (or conceptual search) is an automated information retrieval method that is used to search electronically stored unstructured text (for example, digital archives, email, scientific literature, etc.) for information that is conceptually similar to the information provided in a search query.

  9. Phrase search - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrase_search

    In computer science, phrase searching allows users to retrieve content from information systems (such as documents from file storage systems, records from databases, and web pages on the internet) that contains a specific order and combination of words defined by the user. [1]

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