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  2. Search engine optimization - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Favored placement - Wikipedia

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    Favored placement. Favored placement (also known as preferred placement) is the practice of preferentially listing search engine results for given sites. It is also known as pay for placement, but this term usually refers to advertisements that appear along with relevant search results while favored placement affects the order of actual search ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. AOL Search FAQs - AOL Help

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    When seeking online information, many people turn to search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo, or AOL Search. These search engines function as digital indexes, organizing available content by topic and sub-topic, much like an index in a book. Each search engine builds its index using distinct methods, typically beginning with an automated ...

  6. Pay for placement - Wikipedia

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    Pay for placement, or P4P, is an Internet advertising model in which advertisements appear along with relevant search results from a Web search engine. Under this model, advertisers bid for the right to present an advertisement with specific search terms (i.e., keywords) in an open auction. [ 1] When one of these keywords is entered into the ...

  7. Wikipedia:Search engine indexing (proposal) - Wikipedia

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    Search engine indexing (proposal) Search engines such as Google and Bing deliver search results by using computer programs called web crawlers to 'surf' the internet looking for new pages to add to search indices, and for updates to previously 'crawled' pages. These potentially-intrusive programs are governed by a set of standards that allow ...

  8. Timeline of web search engines - Wikipedia

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    Robin Li developed the RankDex site-scoring algorithm for search engines results page ranking [23] [24] [25] and received a US patent for the technology. [26] It was the first search engine that used hyperlinks to measure the quality of websites it was indexing, [27] predating the very similar algorithm patent filed by Google two years later in ...

  9. 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 ...