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  2. Search engine - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine

    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 ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. Contextual searching - Wikipedia

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    Contextual searching. Contextual search is a form of optimizing web-based search results based on context provided by the user and the computer being used to enter the query. [1] Contextual search services differ from current search engines based on traditional information retrieval that return lists of documents based on their relevance to the ...

  5. List of search engines - Wikipedia

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    Cross-platform open-source desktop search engine. Unmaintained since 2011-06-02 [9]. LGPL v2 [10] Terrier Search Engine: Linux, Mac OS X, Unix: Desktop search for Windows, Mac OS X (Tiger), Unix/Linux. MPL v1.1 [11] Tracker: Linux, Unix: Open-source desktop search tool for Unix/Linux GPL v2 [12] Tropes Zoom: Windows: Semantic Search Engine (no ...

  6. Site map - Wikipedia

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    Site map. A sitemap is a list of pages of a web site within a domain. There are three primary kinds of sitemap: Sitemaps used during the planning of a website by its designers. Human-visible listings, typically hierarchical, of the pages on a site. Structured listings intended for web crawlers such as search engines.

  7. Metasearch engine - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasearch_engine

    Metasearch engine. A metasearch engine (or search aggregator) is an online information retrieval tool that uses the data of a web search engine to produce its own results. [1][2] Metasearch engines take input from a user and immediately query search engines [3] for results. Sufficient data is gathered, ranked, and presented to the users.

  8. Web crawler - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler

    mnoGoSearch is a crawler, indexer and a search engine written in C and licensed under the GPL (*NIX machines only) Open Search Server is a search engine and web crawler software release under the GPL. Scrapy, an open source webcrawler framework, written in python (licensed under BSD). Seeks, a free distributed search engine (licensed under AGPL).

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