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  2. Help:Searching from a web browser - Wikipedia

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    To set Wikipedia as the default search engine: Click the hamburger menu and go to the 'Options' menu. In the options menu, click on 'Search'. To set Wikipedia as the default search engine, click on the dropdown menu under "Default Search Engine" and select Wikipedia. To trigger the keyword search: Type the '@' key into the search bar.

  3. Google Search - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Search

    Google Search (also known simply as Google or Google.com) is a search engine operated by Google. It allows users to search for information on the Internet by entering keywords or phrases. Google Search uses algorithms to analyze and rank websites based on their relevance to the search query. It is the most popular search engine worldwide.

  4. Search engine - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine

    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, accompanied by textual summaries and images.

  5. 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 ...

  6. Search engine optimization - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization

    v. t. e. Search engine optimization ( SEO) is the process of improving the quality and quantity of website traffic to a website or a web page from search engines. [1] [2] SEO targets unpaid traffic (known as "natural" or "organic" results) rather than direct traffic or paid traffic. Unpaid traffic may originate from different kinds of searches ...

  7. Timeline of web search engines - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_web_search_engines

    1. New web search engine. Blekko, a search engine that uses slashtags to allow people to search in more targeted categories, launches. [64] 2011. February. 23–24. Search algorithm update. Google launches Google Panda, a major update affecting 12% of search queries.

  8. Search engine (computing) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_(computing)

    Search engine (computing) 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. [1] The search results are usually presented in ...

  9. HTML - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML

    In order for search engine spiders to be able to rate the significance of pieces of text they find in HTML documents, and also for those creating mashups and other hybrids as well as for more automated agents as they are developed, the semantic structures that exist in HTML need to be widely and uniformly applied to bring out the meaning of the ...