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  2. List of academic databases and search engines - Wikipedia

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    Databases and search engines differ substantially in terms of coverage and retrieval qualities. [1] Users need to account for qualities and limitations of databases and search engines, especially those searching systematically for records such as in systematic reviews or meta-analyses. [2]

  3. Help:Searching - Wikipedia

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    several external search engines' views of Wikipedia. The search results page will then have a pull down list to the left of its search box, offering your choice as, say, a modification of a word or phrase search, or a page ranking refinement. Go to Preferences → Gadgets Appearance, and see "Add a selector to the Wikipedia search page allowing ...

  4. Search engine optimization - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Naver - Wikipedia

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    Naver was founded in June 1999 [1] as the first South Korean portal website with a self-developed search engine. In August 2000, Naver launched its 'comprehensive search' service, which allows users to get a variety of results from a single search query on one page, organized by type, including blogs, websites, images, and web communities.

  6. Metasearch engine - Wikipedia

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    This search engine improved on SearchSavvy's accuracy by adding its own search syntax behind the scenes, and matching the syntax to that of the search engines it was probing. Metacrawler reduced the amount of search engines queried to 6, but although it produced more accurate results, it still wasn't considered as accurate as searching a query ...

  7. Dogpile - Wikipedia

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    While users of the search engine may not recognize a problem, it was shown that they use ~3 search engines per month. Dogpile realized that searchers are not necessarily finding the results they were looking for in one search engine and thus decided to redefine their existing metasearch engine to provide the best results. [21]

  8. Outline of search engines - Wikipedia

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    Database search enginesearch engine that operates on material stored in a digital database; Desktop search engine – Distributed search enginesearch engine where there is no central server. Unlike traditional centralized search engines, work such as crawling, data mining, indexing, and query processing is distributed among several ...

  9. Archie (search engine) - Wikipedia

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    Archie is a tool for indexing FTP archives, allowing users to more easily identify specific files. It is considered the first Internet search engine. [2] The original implementation was written in 1990 by Alan Emtage, then a postgraduate student at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.