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  2. Search engine indexing - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_indexing

    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 ...

  3. Search engine - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. W3Schools - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W3Schools

    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.

  5. Meta element - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_element

    Meta elements are tags used in HTML and XHTML documents to provide structured metadata about a Web page. They are part of a web page's head section. Multiple Meta elements with different attributes can be used on the same page. Meta elements can be used to specify page description, keywords and any other metadata not provided through the other ...

  6. Information retrieval - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_retrieval

    Information retrieval is the science [1] of searching for information in a document, searching for documents themselves, and also searching for the metadata that describes data, and for databases of texts, images or sounds. Automated information retrieval systems are used to reduce what has been called information overload.

  7. Canonical link element - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical_link_element

    Canonical link element. A canonical link element is an HTML element that helps webmasters prevent duplicate content issues in search engine optimization by specifying the "canonical" or "preferred" version of a web page. It is described in RFC 6596, which went live in April 2012. [1] [2]

  8. Web development - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_development

    Web development is the work involved in developing a website for the Internet ( World Wide Web) or an intranet (a private network). [1] Web development can range from developing a simple single static page of plain text to complex web applications, electronic businesses, and social network services. A more comprehensive list of tasks to which ...

  9. World Wide Web - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web

    The results of a search for the term "lunar eclipse" in a web-based image search engine. A web search engine or Internet search engine is a software system that is designed to carry out web search (Internet search), which means to search the World Wide Web in a systematic way for particular information specified in a web search query.