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  2. 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 ...

  3. Search engine (computing) - Wikipedia

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    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 list and are commonly ...

  4. List of file formats - Wikipedia

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    ARC – Nintendo U8 Archive (mostly Yaz0 compressed) ARJ – ARJ compressed file. ASS, SSA – ASS (also SSA): a subtitles file created by Aegisub, a video typesetting application (also a Halo game engine file) B – (B file) Similar to .a, but less compressed. BA – BA: Scifer Archive (.ba), Scifer External Archive Type.

  5. Search engine - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. List of search engines - Wikipedia

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    Search engines, including web search engines, selection-based search engines, metasearch engines, desktop search tools, and web portals and vertical market websites ...

  7. Internal and external links - Wikipedia

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    Internal and external links. An is a type of hyperlink on a web page to another page or resource, such as an image or document, on the same website or domain. [1] [2] It is the opposite of an , a link that directs a user to content that is outside its domain. Hyperlinks are considered either "external" or "internal" depending on their target or ...

  8. Computer - Wikipedia

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    A computer is a machine that can be programmed to automatically carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations ( computation ). Modern digital electronic computers can perform generic sets of operations known as programs. These programs enable computers to perform a wide range of tasks. The term computer system may refer to a nominally ...

  9. Help:Searching from a web browser - Wikipedia

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    Select 'Manage search engines' Once in the "Manage search engines" setting page: Click the "Add" button. Add Wikipedia as a search engine In the "Search engines" field, name this entry e.g. Wikipedia.org; In the "Shortcut" field, type the text that will trigger this search engine in the address bar e.g. wiki.