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  2. DuckDuckGo - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo

    DuckDuckGo was founded by Gabriel Weinberg and launched on February 29, 2008, in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. [2] [13] 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 ."

  3. Web crawler - Wikipedia

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    GRUB was an open source distributed search crawler that Wikia Search used to crawl the web. Heritrix is the Internet Archive 's archival-quality crawler, designed for archiving periodic snapshots of a large portion of the Web. It was written in Java. ht://Dig includes a Web crawler in its indexing engine.

  4. Browser hijacking - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_hijacking

    It can be found when installing "Cheat Engine" or a different version of "VLC Player" on www.oldapps.com, or when downloading applications from certain freeware sites, such as Softonic.com or Download.com. Trovi uses Bing (a legitimate search engine) to provide results to the user.

  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. AOL Search FAQs - AOL Help

    help.aol.com/articles/aol-search-faqs

    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 ...

  7. Spamdexing - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spamdexing

    Spamdexing (also known as search engine spam, search engine poisoning, black-hat search engine optimization, search spam or web spam) [1] is the deliberate manipulation of search engine indexes. It involves a number of methods, such as link building and repeating unrelated phrases, to manipulate the relevance or prominence of resources indexed ...

  8. McAfee SiteAdvisor - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McAfee_SiteAdvisor

    McAfee SiteAdvisor. The McAfee SiteAdvisor, later renamed as the McAfee WebAdvisor, is a service that reports on the safety of web sites by crawling the web and testing the sites it finds for malware and spam. A browser extension can show these ratings on hyperlinks such as on web search results. [1] [2] Users could formerly submit reviews of ...

  9. Sitemaps - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitemaps

    Sitemaps is a protocol in XML format meant for a webmaster to inform search engines about URLs on a website that are available for web crawling.It allows webmasters to include additional information about each URL: when it was last updated, how often it changes, and how important it is in relation to other URLs of the site.