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  2. Search engine (computing) - Wikipedia

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    In computing, a search engine is an information retrieval software system designed to help find information stored on one or more computer systems. 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 ...

  3. Search engine - Wikipedia

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    Web search engine submission is a process in which a webmaster submits a website directly to a search engine. While search engine submission is sometimes presented as a way to promote a website, it generally is not necessary because the major search engines use web crawlers that will eventually find most web sites on the Internet without ...

  4. Web crawler - Wikipedia

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    mnoGoSearch is a crawler, indexer and a search engine written in C and licensed under the GPL (*NIX machines only) Open Search Server is a search engine and web crawler software release under the GPL. Scrapy, an open source webcrawler framework, written in python (licensed under BSD). Seeks, a free distributed search engine (licensed under AGPL).

  5. Information retrieval - Wikipedia

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    Automated information retrieval systems are used to reduce what has been called information overload. An IR system is a software system that provides access to books, journals and other documents; it also stores and manages those documents. Web search engines are the most visible IR applications.

  6. Timeline of web search engines - Wikipedia

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    Robin Li developed the RankDex site-scoring algorithm for search engines results page ranking [23] [24] [25] and received a US patent for the technology. [26] It was the first search engine that used hyperlinks to measure the quality of websites it was indexing, [27] predating the very similar algorithm patent filed by Google two years later in ...

  7. Outline of search engines - Wikipedia

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    Enterprise search enginesearch engine employed on and for access to the information on an organization's computer network. Human search engineuses human participation to filter the search results and assist users in clarifying their search request. The goal is to provide users with a limited number of relevant results, as opposed to ...

  8. 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 ...

  9. 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;