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  2. PDF - Wikipedia

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    Yes. Website. iso .org /standard /75839 .html. Portable Document Format ( PDF ), standardized as ISO 32000, is a file format developed by Adobe in 1992 to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.

  3. List of search engines - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons Search engines, including web ... Search engines, including web search engines, ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. 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 ...

  6. Project Daedalus - Wikipedia

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    Project Daedalus (named after Daedalus, the Greek mythological designer who crafted wings for human flight) was a study conducted between 1973 and 1978 by the British Interplanetary Society to design a plausible uncrewed interstellar probe. [1] Intended mainly as a scientific probe, the design criteria specified that the spacecraft had to use ...

  7. List of academic databases and search engines - Wikipedia

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    List of academic databases and search engines. This article contains a representative list of notable databases and search engines useful in an academic setting for finding and accessing articles in academic journals, institutional repositories, archives, or other collections of scientific and other articles. Databases and search engines differ ...

  8. 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 ...

  9. Full-text search - Wikipedia

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    Full-text search. In text retrieval, full-text search refers to techniques for searching a single computer -stored document or a collection in a full-text database. Full-text search is distinguished from searches based on metadata or on parts of the original texts represented in databases (such as titles, abstracts, selected sections, or ...