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  2. Search engine scraping - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_scraping

    When search engine defense thinks an access might be automated, the search engine can react differently. The first layer of defense is a captcha page where the user is prompted to verify they are a real person and not a bot or tool. Solving the captcha will create a cookie that permits access to the search engine again for a while. After about ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. Canonical link element - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical_link_element

    A canonical link element is an HTML element that helps webmasters prevent duplicate content issues in search engine optimization by specifying the "canonical" or "preferred" version of a web page. It is described in RFC 6596, which went live in April 2012.

  5. Search engine - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine

    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 ...

  6. DuckDuckGo - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo

    History Early years DuckDuckGo was founded by Gabriel Weinberg and launched on February 29, 2008, in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. Weinberg is an entrepreneur who previously launched Names Database, a now-defunct social network. Self-funded by Weinberg until October 2011, DuckDuckGo was then "backed by Union Square Ventures and a handful of angel investors." Union Square partner Brad Burnham ...

  7. Web crawler - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler

    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).

  8. Google Programmable Search Engine - Wikipedia

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    Active. Written in. C++ [1] Google Programmable Search Engine (formerly known as Google Custom Search and Google Co-op) is a platform provided by Google that allows web developers to feature specialized information in web searches, refine and categorize queries and create customized search engines, [2] based on Google Search.

  9. Search engine results page - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_results_page

    A search engine results page (SERP) is a webpage that is displayed by a search engine in response to a query by a user. The main component of a SERP is the listing of results that are returned by the search engine in response to a keyword query. The results are of two general types : organic search: retrieved by the search engine's algorithm