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  2. Web crawler - Wikipedia

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    The crawler was integrated with the indexing process, because text parsing was done for full-text indexing and also for URL extraction. There is a URL server that sends lists of URLs to be fetched by several crawling processes. During parsing, the URLs found were passed to a URL server that checked if the URL have been previously seen.

  3. Glossary of computer science - Wikipedia

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    Also simply application or app. Computer software designed to perform a group of coordinated functions, tasks, or activities for the benefit of the user. Common examples of applications include word processors, spreadsheets, accounting applications, web browsers, media players, aeronautical flight simulators, console games, and photo editors. This contrasts with system software, which is ...

  4. Search engine - Wikipedia

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    Some engines suggest queries when the user is typing in the search box. A search engine is a software system that provides hyperlinks to web pages and other relevant information on the Web in response to a user's query. The user inputs a query within a web browser or a mobile app, and the search results are often a list of hyperlinks ...

  5. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.

  6. Common Crawl - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Crawl

    Common Crawl is a nonprofit 501 (c) (3) organization that crawls the web and freely provides its archives and datasets to the public. [1][2] Common Crawl's web archive consists of petabytes of data collected since 2008. [3] It completes crawls generally every month. [4] Common Crawl was founded by Gil Elbaz. [5]

  7. Search engine optimization - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the quality and quantity of website traffic to a website or a web page from search engines. [1][2] SEO targets unpaid traffic (known as "natural" or "organic" results) rather than direct traffic or paid traffic. Unpaid traffic may originate from different kinds of searches ...

  8. Semantic search - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_search

    Semantic search. Semantic search denotes search with meaning, as distinguished from lexical search where the search engine looks for literal matches of the query words or variants of them, without understanding the overall meaning of the query. [1] Semantic search seeks to improve search accuracy by understanding the searcher's intent and the ...

  9. Comparison of web search engines - Wikipedia

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    Comparison of web search engines. Web search engines are listed in tables below for comparison purposes. The first table lists the company behind the engine, volume and ad support and identifies the nature of the software being used as free software or proprietary software. The second and third table lists internet privacy aspects along with ...