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  2. Search engine indexing - Wikipedia

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    Generating or maintaining a large-scale search engine index represents a significant storage and processing challenge. Many search engines utilize a form of compression to reduce the size of the indices on disk. [19] Consider the following scenario for a full text, Internet search engine. It takes 8 bits (or 1 byte) to store a single character.

  3. Distributed search engine - Wikipedia

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    The goals of building a distributed search engine include: 1. to create an independent search engine powered by the community; 2. to make the search operation open and transparent by relying on open-source software; 3. to distribute the advertising revenue to node maintainers, which may help create more robust web infrastructure;

  4. List of Adobe software - Wikipedia

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    Acrobat InProduction is a pre-press tools suite for Acrobat released by Adobe in 2000 to handle color separation and pre-flighting of PDF files for printing. Acrobat Messenger is a document utility for Acrobat users that was released by Adobe Systems in 2000 to convert paper documents into PDF files that can be e-mailed, faxed, or shared online.

  5. AOL Search FAQs - AOL Help

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    When seeking online information, many people turn to search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo, or AOL Search. These search engines function as digital indexes, organizing available content by topic and sub-topic, much like an index in a book. Each search engine builds its index using distinct methods, typically beginning with an automated ...

  6. Web indexing - Wikipedia

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    Web indexing, or Internet indexing, comprises methods for indexing the contents of a website or of the Internet as a whole. Individual websites or intranets may use a back-of-the-book index, while search engines usually use keywords and metadata to provide a more useful vocabulary for Internet or onsite searching.

  7. Contextual searching - Wikipedia

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    Contextual search is a form of optimizing web-based search results based on context provided by the user and the computer being used to enter the query. [1] Contextual search services differ from current search engines based on traditional information retrieval that return lists of documents based on their relevance to the query.

  8. Search engine (computing) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Help:Searching/Features - Wikipedia

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    The query does not actually search the page database, but rather, a search queries a prebuilt, constantly maintained, search index database. When creating the search index of words on the wiki, or when entering a query, a word boundary is greyspace. Greyspace characters can create a multi-word_phrase. We must say tab and newline even though we ...