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  2. Cross-site scripting - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_scripting

    A classic example of a potential vector is a site search engine: if one searches for a string, the search string will typically be redisplayed verbatim on the result page to indicate what was searched for. If this response does not properly escape or reject HTML control characters, a cross-site scripting flaw will ensue.

  3. 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).

  4. 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 ...

  5. Programming languages used in most popular websites

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    One thing the most visited websites have in common is that they are dynamic websites.Their development typically involves server-side coding, client-side coding and database technology.

  6. robots.txt - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots.txt

    A robots.txt file contains instructions for bots indicating which web pages they can and cannot access. Robots.txt files are particularly important for web crawlers from search engines such as Google. A robots.txt file on a website will function as a request that specified robots ignore specified files or directories when crawling a site.

  7. Web scraping - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping

    Web scraping, web harvesting, or web data extraction is data scraping used for extracting data from websites. [1] Web scraping software may directly access the World Wide Web using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol or a web browser. While web scraping can be done manually by a software user, the term typically refers to automated processes ...

  8. Spamdexing - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spamdexing

    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 ...

  9. Search engine scraping - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_scraping

    Search engine scraping is the process of harvesting URLs, descriptions, or other information from search engines. This is a specific form of screen scraping or web scraping dedicated to search engines only. Most commonly larger search engine optimization (SEO) providers depend on regularly scraping keywords from search engines to monitor the ...