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  2. Google Search - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Search

    C++ [2] Google Search (also known simply as Google or Google.com) is a search engine operated by Google. It allows users to search for information on the Internet by entering keywords or phrases. Google Search uses algorithms to analyze and rank websites based on their relevance to the search query. It is the most popular search engine worldwide.

  3. Search engine optimization - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization

    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.

  4. Wayback Machine - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine

    The Wayback Machine is a digital archive of the World Wide Web founded by the Internet Archive, an American nonprofit organization based in San Francisco, California. Created in 1996 and launched to the public in 2001, it allows the user to go "back in time" to see how websites looked in the past.

  5. Help:Searching - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Searching

    To jump to the search box, " f ocus" your cursor to there by pressing ⇧ Shift + Alt + F . In Vector, instead of a search button, there is an icon of a magnifying glass on the right-hand end of the search box. Pressing ↵ Enter or clicking on the magnifying glass when the box is empty takes you directly to Wikipedia's search page .

  6. List of search engines - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines

    Cross-platform open-source desktop search engine. Unmaintained since 2011-06-02. LGPL v2 : Terrier Search Engine: Linux, Mac OS X, Unix: Desktop search for Windows, Mac OS X (Tiger), Unix/Linux. MPL v1.1: Tracker: Linux, Unix: Open-source desktop search tool for Unix/Linux GPL v2 : Tropes Zoom: Windows: Semantic Search Engine (no longer available)

  7. Meta element - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_element

    Other search engines developed techniques to penalize Web sites considered to be "cheating the system". For example, a Web site repeating the same meta keyword several times may have its ranking decreased by a search engine trying to eliminate this practice, though that is unlikely. It is more likely that a search engine will ignore the meta ...

  8. Static site generator - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_site_generator

    Static site generator. Static site generators (SSGs) are software engines that use text input files (such as Markdown, reStructuredText, AsciiDoc and JSON) to generate static web pages. [1] Static sites generated by static site generators do not require a backend after site generation, making them first-class citizens on content delivery ...

  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 ...