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  2. Yahoo Search - Wikipedia

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    In 1995, they introduced a search engine function, called Yahoo! Search, that allowed users to search Yahoo! Directory. [5] [6] it was the first popular search engine on the Web, [7] despite not being a true Web crawler search engine. They later licensed Web search engines from other companies. Seeking to provide its own Web search engine ...

  3. Comparison of web search engines - Wikipedia

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    The first table lists the company behind the engine, volume and ad support and identifies the nature of the software being used as free software or proprietary software. The second and third table lists internet privacy aspects along with other technical parameters, such as whether the engine provides personalization (alternatively viewed as a ...

  4. List of academic databases and search engines - Wikipedia

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    The main academic full-text databases are open archives or link-resolution services, although others operate under different models such as mirroring or hybrid publishers. . Such services typically provide access to full text and full-text search, but also metadata about items for which no full text is availa

  5. Yandex Search - Wikipedia

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    Yandex Search (Russian: Яндекс) is a search engine owned by the company Yandex, based in Russia.In January 2015, Yandex Search generated 51.2% of all of the search traffic in Russia according to LiveInternet [ru; uk].

  6. Microsoft Bing - Wikipedia

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    Microsoft Bing, commonly referred to as Bing, is a search engine owned and operated by Microsoft.The service traces its roots back to Microsoft's earlier search engines, including MSN Search, Windows Live Search, and Live Search.

  7. 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.

  8. Search engine optimization - Wikipedia

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    When a search engine visits a site, the robots.txt located in the root directory is the first file crawled. The robots.txt file is then parsed and will instruct the robot as to which pages are not to be crawled. As a search engine crawler may keep a cached copy of this file, it may on occasion crawl pages a webmaster does not wish to crawl.

  9. Search engine marketing - Wikipedia

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    A successful SEM plan is the approach to capture the relationships amongst information searchers, businesses, and search engines. Search engines were not important to some industries in the past, but over the past years the use of search engines for accessing information has become vital to increase business opportunities. [32]