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  2. Yahoo! Search - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Search

    Yahoo! Search is a search engine owned and operated by Yahoo!, using Microsoft Bing to power results. Originally, "Yahoo! Search" referred to a Yahoo!-provided interface that sent queries to a searchable index of pages supplemented with its directory of websites. The results were presented to the user under the Yahoo! brand.

  3. Query string - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Query_string

    Query string. A query string is a part of a uniform resource locator (URL) that assigns values to specified parameters. A query string commonly includes fields added to a base URL by a Web browser or other client application, for example as part of an HTML document, choosing the appearance of a page, or jumping to positions in multimedia content.

  4. Search engine results page - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_results_page

    A search engine results page ( SERP) is a webpage that is displayed by a search engine in response to a query by a user. The main component of a SERP is the listing of results that are returned by the search engine in response to a keyword query . organic search: retrieved by the search engine's algorithm. sponsored search: advertisements.

  5. Help:Searching - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Searching

    Whatever you type into the search box is called the "search string". It may also be referred to as the "search query". A basic search string is simply the topic you are interested in reading about. A direct match of a basic search string will navigate you directly to Wikipedia's article that has that title. A no

  6. Search engine (computing) - Wikipedia

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    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. The search results are usually presented in a ...

  7. Proximity search (text) - Wikipedia

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    Proximity search (text) In text processing, a proximity search looks for documents where two or more separately matching term occurrences are within a specified distance, where distance is the number of intermediate words or characters. In addition to proximity, some implementations may also impose a constraint on the word order, in that the ...

  8. AOL Search FAQs - AOL Help

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    AOL Search provides extensive search results along with convenient one-click access to relevant web content, including web results, images, videos, maps, and more. It offers a complete search experience by delivering a diverse range of results in a single search, eliminating the need for additional search queries.

  9. Web query - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_query

    Web query. A web query or web search query is a query that a user enters into a web search engine to satisfy their information needs. Web search queries are distinctive in that they are often plain text and boolean search directives are rarely used. They vary greatly from standard query languages, which are governed by strict syntax rules as ...