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  2. Search engine - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine

    A search engine maintains the following processes in near real time: Web crawling; Indexing; Searching; Web search engines get their information by web crawling from site to site. The "spider" checks for the standard filename robots.txt, addressed to it. The robots.txt file contains directives for search spiders, telling it which pages to crawl ...

  3. DuckDuckGo - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Search engine indexing - Wikipedia

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    Search engine indexing is the collecting, parsing, and storing of data to facilitate fast and accurate information retrieval. Index design incorporates interdisciplinary concepts from linguistics, cognitive psychology, mathematics, informatics, and computer science. An alternate name for the process, in the context of search engines designed to ...

  5. Help:Searching from a web browser - Wikipedia

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    Click the kebab menu to the right of the search bar. Select Preferences on Mac and Linux, or Settings on Windows or Chrome OS. Under Search engine, select Manage search engines. If available, right-click in the address bar and select Edit search engines... instead. Under Site search, click Add and choose a name and keyword for Wikipedia search ...

  6. W3Schools - Wikipedia

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    W3Schools offers courses covering many aspects of web development. W3Schools also publishes free HTML templates. It is run by Refsnes Data in Norway. It has an online text editor called TryIt Editor, and readers can edit examples and run the code in a test environment.

  7. Comparison of web search engines - Wikipedia

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    Comparison of web search engines. Web search engines are listed in tables below for comparison purposes. 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 ...

  8. AOL

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    The search engine that helps you find exactly what you're looking for. Find the most relevant information, video, images, and answers from all across the Web. AOL.

  9. Search engine (computing) - Wikipedia

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    Search engine (computing) In computing, a search engine is an information retrieval software system designed to help find information stored on one or more computer systems. Search engines discover, crawl, transform, and store information for retrieval and presentation in response to user queries. The search results are usually presented in a ...