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  2. Timeline of web search engines - Wikipedia

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    New web search engine: The domain Google.com is registered. [30] Soon, Google Search is available to the public from this domain (around 1998). 23: New web search engine (non-English) Arkady Volozh and Ilya Segalovich launch their Russian web search engine Yandex and publicly present it at the Softool exhibition in Moscow. The initial ...

  3. Deep web - Wikipedia

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    Commercial search engines have begun exploring alternative methods to crawl the deep web. The Sitemap Protocol (first developed, and introduced by Google in 2005) and OAI-PMH are mechanisms that allow search engines and other interested parties to discover deep web resources on particular web servers. Both mechanisms allow web servers to ...

  4. History of Google - Wikipedia

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    Google was officially launched in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin to market Google Search, which has become the most used web-based search engine.Larry Page and Sergey Brin, students at Stanford University in California, developed a search algorithm first (1996) known as "BackRub", with the help of Scott Hassan and Alan Steremberg.

  5. Metasearch engine - Wikipedia

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    This search engine improved on SearchSavvy's accuracy by adding its own search syntax behind the scenes, and matching the syntax to that of the search engines it was probing. Metacrawler reduced the amount of search engines queried to 6, but although it produced more accurate results, it still wasn't considered as accurate as searching a query ...

  6. Human search engine - Wikipedia

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    A human search engine was a search engine that used human participation to filter the search results and assist users in clarifying their search request. The goal was to provide users with a limited number of relevant results, as opposed to traditional search engines that often return many results that may or may not be relevant.

  7. noindex - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noindex

    The noindex value of an HTML robots meta tag requests that automated Internet bots avoid indexing a web page. [1] [2] Reasons why one might want to use this meta tag include advising robots not to index a very large database, web pages that are very transitory, web pages that are under development, web pages that one wishes to keep slightly more private, or the printer and mobile-friendly ...

  8. Google Search Console - Wikipedia

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    Google Search Console Insights, introduced in 2021, is an analytical feature of Google Search Console. It combines data from Google Search Console and Google Analytics, to provide webmasters and content creators with insights into the performance of their content across Google's services.

  9. Deep linking - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_linking

    Web site owners who do not want search engines to deep link, or want them only to index specific pages can request so using the Robots Exclusion Standard (robots.txt file). People who favor deep linking often feel that content owners who do not provide a robots.txt file are implying by default that they do not object to deep linking either by ...