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  2. Help:Searching from a web browser - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Searching_from_a_web...

    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.

  3. 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 ...

  4. Search engine (computing) - Wikipedia

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    Other types of search engines do not store an index. Crawler, or spider type search engines (a.k.a. real-time search engines) may collect and assess items at the time of the search query, dynamically considering additional items based on the contents of a starting item (known as a seed, or seed URL in the case of an Internet crawler).

  5. Google Search - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Comparison of web search engines - Wikipedia

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    Comparison of web search engines. Web search engines are listed in tables below for comparison purposes. The first table lists the company behind the engine, volume and ad support and identifies the nature of the software being used as free software or proprietary software. The second and third table lists internet privacy aspects along with ...

  7. List of search engines - Wikipedia

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

  8. Apache Solr - Wikipedia

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    Apache Solr. Solr (pronounced "solar") is an open-source enterprise-search platform, written in Java. Its major features include full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, real-time indexing, dynamic clustering, database integration, NoSQL features [2] and rich document (e.g., Word, PDF) handling. Providing distributed search and index ...

  9. 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 ...