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A web search engine is a software system that is designed to search for information on the World Wide Web. [1]

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A9.com

A9.com is a subsidiary of Amazon that develops search engine and search advertising technology.

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Advertising

Advertising is an audio or visual form of marketing communication that employs an openly sponsored, non-personal message to promote or sell a product, service or idea.

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Alan Emtage

Alan Emtage (born November 27, 1964) conceived and implemented the first version of Archie, a pre-Web internet search engine for locating material in public FTP archives.

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Algorithm

In mathematics and computer science, an algorithm is an unambiguous specification of how to solve a class of problems.

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Aliweb

ALIWEB (Archie Like Indexing for the WEB) is considered the first Web search engine, as its predecessors were either built with different purposes (the Wanderer, Gopher) or were literally just indexers (Archie, Veronica and Jughead).

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AlltheWeb

AlltheWeb was an Internet search engine that made its debut in mid-1999 and was closed in 2011.

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AltaVista

AltaVista was a Web search engine established in 1996.

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Arabs

Arabs (عَرَب ISO 233, Arabic pronunciation) are a population inhabiting the Arab world.

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Archie Comics

Archie Comic Publications, Inc. is an American comic book publisher headquartered in Pelham, New York.

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Archie search engine

Archie is a tool for indexing FTP archives, allowing people to find specific files.

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Ask.com

Ask.com (originally known as Ask Jeeves) is a question answering-focused e-business and web search engine founded in 1996 by Garrett Gruener and David Warthen in Berkeley, California.

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Baidu

Baidu, Inc. (anglicized), incorporated on 18 January 2000, is a Chinese multinational technology company specializing in Internet-related services and products, and artificial intelligence, headquartered at the Baidu Campus in Beijing's Haidian District.

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Bing (search engine)

Bing is a web search engine owned and operated by Microsoft.

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Blackle

Blackle is a website powered by Google Custom Search and created by Heap Media, which aims to save energy by displaying a black background and using grayish-white font color for search results.

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Blekko

Blekko, trademarked as blekko (lowercase), was a company that provided a web search engine with the stated goal of providing better search results than those offered by Google Search, with results gathered from a set of 3 billion trusted webpages and excluding such sites as content farms.

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Boogami

Boogami was a search engine launched in August 2008, that was developed by James Wildish, a 16-year-old college student from the United Kingdom.

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BP

BP plc (stylised as bp), formerly British Petroleum, is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England.

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Cache (computing)

In computing, a cache, is a hardware or software component that stores data so future requests for that data can be served faster; the data stored in a cache might be the result of an earlier computation, or the duplicate of data stored elsewhere.

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Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University (commonly known as CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Cascading Style Sheets

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used for describing the presentation of a document written in a markup language like HTML.

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CBS Interactive

CBS Interactive Inc. (formerly CBS Digital Media Group) is an American media company and is a division of the CBS Corporation.

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CERN

The European Organization for Nuclear Research (Organisation européenne pour la recherche nucléaire), known as CERN (derived from the name Conseil européen pour la recherche nucléaire), is a European research organization that operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world.

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ChaCha (search engine)

ChaCha was a human-guided search engine.

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Cliqz

Cliqz is a web browser developed by Cliqz GmbH.

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Comparison of web search engines

Search engines are listed in tables below for comparison purposes.

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Concept search

A concept search (or conceptual search) is an automated information retrieval method that is used to search electronically stored unstructured text (for example, digital archives, email, scientific literature, etc.) for information that is conceptually similar to the information provided in a search query.

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Conspiracy theory

A conspiracy theory is an explanation of an event or situation that invokes an unwarranted conspiracy, generally one involving an illegal or harmful act carried out by government or other powerful actors.

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Content-control software

Content-control software, commonly referred to as an internet filter, is software that restricts or controls the content an Internet user is capable to access, especially when utilised to restrict material delivered over the Internet via the Web, e-mail, or other means.

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Contextual advertising

Contextual advertising is a form of targeted advertising for advertisements appearing on websites or other media, such as content displayed in mobile browsers.

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Cuil

Cuil was a search engine that organized web pages by content and displayed relatively long entries along with thumbnail pictures for many results.

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Czech Republic

The Czech Republic (Česká republika), also known by its short-form name Czechia (Česko), is a landlocked country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west, Austria to the south, Slovakia to the east and Poland to the northeast.

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Data mining

Data mining is the process of discovering patterns in large data sets involving methods at the intersection of machine learning, statistics, and database systems.

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Database

A database is an organized collection of data, stored and accessed electronically.

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Deep web

The deep web, invisible web, or hidden web are parts of the World Wide Web whose contents are not indexed by standard web search engines for any reason.

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Deepwater Horizon oil spill

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill (also referred to as the BP oil spill/leak, the BP oil disaster, the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, and the Macondo blowout) is an industrial disaster that began on 20 April 2010, in the Gulf of Mexico on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect, considered to be the largest marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry and estimated to be 8% to 31% larger in volume than the previous largest, the Ixtoc I oil spill.

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Dogpile

Dogpile is a metasearch engine for information on the World Wide Web that fetches results from Google, Yahoo!, and Yandex, and includes results from several other popular search engines, including those from audio and video content providers.

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Dot-com bubble

The dot-com bubble (also known as the dot-com boom, the dot-com crash, the Y2K crash, the Y2K bubble, the tech bubble, the Internet bubble, the dot-com collapse, and the information technology bubble) was a historic economic bubble and period of excessive speculation that occurred roughly from 1997 to 2001, a period of extreme growth in the usage and adaptation of the Internet.

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DuckDuckGo

DuckDuckGo (DDG) is an Internet search engine that emphasizes protecting searchers' privacy and avoiding the filter bubble of personalized search results.

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Ecosia

Ecosia is a web search engine based in Berlin, Germany, which donates 80% of its surplus income to non-profit conservationist organizations, with a focus on tree planting.

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Egerin

Egerin is a web search engine (powered by Bing).

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Eli Pariser

Eli Pariser (born December 17, 1980) is the chief executive of Upworthy, a website for "meaningful" viral content.

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Empas

Empas (hangul: 엠파스) was one of the popular total internet search tools and web portal sites in South Korea.

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Exalead

EXALEAD is a software company, created in 2000, that provided search platforms and search-based applications (SBA) for consumer and business users.

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Excite

Excite (stylized as excite) is an internet portal launched in December 1995 that provides a variety of content including news and weather, a metasearch engine, a web-based email, instant messaging, stock quotes, and a customizable user homepage.

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Facebook

Facebook is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California.

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File Transfer Protocol

The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a standard network protocol used for the transfer of computer files between a client and server on a computer network.

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Filter bubble

A filter bubble is a state of intellectual isolation Technopedia,, Retrieved October 10, 2017, "....A filter bubble is the intellectual isolation that can occur when websites make use of algorithms to selectively assume the information a user would want to see, and then give information to the user according to this assumption...

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Forestle

Forestle was an ecologically inspired search engine created by Christian Kroll, Wittenberg, Germany, in 2008 and discontinued in 2011.

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Form (HTML)

A webform, web form or HTML form on a web page allows a user to enter data that is sent to a server for processing.

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GenieKnows

GenieKnows Inc., a privately owned vertical search engine company based in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

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Gigablast

Gigablast is a web search engine founded in 2000.

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Go.com

Go.com (also known as The Go Network) is a landing page for Disney content, created as a joint venture between Infoseek and Disney Interactive.

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Google

Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware.

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Google bomb

The terms Google bomb and Googlewashing refer to the practice of causing a website to rank highly in web search engine results for irrelevant, unrelated or off-topic search terms by linking heavily.

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Google effect

The Google effect, also called digital amnesia, is the tendency to forget information that can be found readily online by using Internet search engines such as Google.

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Google Search

Google Search, commonly referred to as Google Web Search or simply Google, is a web search engine developed by Google.

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Gopher (protocol)

The Gopher protocol is a TCP/IP application layer protocol designed for distributing, searching, and retrieving documents over the Internet.

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Halal

Halal (حلال, "permissible"), also spelled hallal or halaal, refers to what is permissible or lawful in traditional Islamic law.

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Halalgoogling

Halalgoogling is an Islamic internet search engine aimed at Muslim users as in the holy month of ramadhan they try to ban the haram content.

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Haram

Haram (حَرَام) is an Arabic term meaning "forbidden".

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Helen Nissenbaum

Helen Nissenbaum is professor of information science at Cornell Tech.

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Holocaust denial

Holocaust denial is the act of denying the genocide of Jews in the Holocaust during World War II.

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Home page

A home page or a start page is the initial or main web page of a website or a browser.

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HotBot

HotBot was a metasearch engine for information on the world wide web.

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HTML

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the standard markup language for creating web pages and web applications.

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ImHalal

I'mHalal.com was a search engine build on top of social-cultural Islamic values.

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Indian subcontinent

The Indian subcontinent is a southern region and peninsula of Asia, mostly situated on the Indian Plate and projecting southwards into the Indian Ocean from the Himalayas.

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Info.com

Info.com was a metasearch engine which provides results from leading search engines and pay-per-click directories, including Google, Yahoo!, Bing.com, Ask, LookSmart, About and Open Directory.

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Information retrieval

Information retrieval (IR) is the activity of obtaining information system resources relevant to an information need from a collection of information resources.

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Infoseek

Infoseek was a popular internet search engine founded in 1994 by Steve Kirsch.

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Initial public offering

Initial public offering (IPO) or stock market launch is a type of public offering in which shares of a company are sold to institutional investors and usually also retail (individual) investors; an IPO is underwritten by one or more investment banks, who also arrange for the shares to be listed on one or more stock exchanges.

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Inktomi

Inktomi Corporation was a company that provided software for Internet service providers (ISPs).

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Internet

The Internet is the global system of interconnected computer networks that use the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link devices worldwide.

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Internet bot

An Internet Bot, also known as web robot, WWW robot or simply -bot-, is a software application that runs automated tasks (scripts) over the Internet.

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Inverted index

In computer science, an inverted index (also referred to as postings file or inverted file) is an index data structure storing a mapping from content, such as words or numbers, to its locations in a database file, or in a document or a set of documents (named in contrast to a forward index, which maps from documents to content).

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Iterative method

In computational mathematics, an iterative method is a mathematical procedure that uses an initial guess to generate a sequence of improving approximate solutions for a class of problems, in which the n-th approximation is derived from the previous ones.

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Ixquick

Ixquick (styled "ixquick") was a metasearch engine based in Zeist and New York, which highlights privacy as its distinguishing feature.

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JavaScript

JavaScript, often abbreviated as JS, is a high-level, interpreted programming language.

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Jughead (search engine)

Jughead is a search engine system for the Gopher protocol.

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Jughead Jones

Forsythe Pendleton "Jughead" Jones III is one of the fictional character created by Bob Montana and John L. Goldwater in Archie Comics who first appeared in the first Archie story, from Pep Comics #22 (December 1941).

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JumpStation

JumpStation was the first WWW search engine that behaved, and appeared to the user, the way current web search engines do.

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Kakao

Kakao (카카오) is a South Korean internet company established in 2014. It was formed from a merger of Daum Communications and Kakao to Daum Kakao in 2014. The company changed its name from Daum Kakao to Kakao in 2015. On May 28, 2015, the company acquired Path, a US social media company that had met with success in Asia. On January 11, 2016, Kakao acquired a 76.4 percent stake in LOEN Entertainment (now Kakao M), Korea's top online music service for $1.5 billion. Kakao Corporation's most prominent app has been KakaoTalk, which had 49.47 million downloads in 2017.

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Kartoo

KartOO was a meta search engine which displayed a visual interface.

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Knowbot Information Service

The Knowbot Information Service (KIS), also known as netaddress, is an Internet user search engine that debuted in December 1989.

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Larry Page

Lawrence Edward Page (born March 26, 1973) is an American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur who co-founded Google with Sergey Brin.

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LeapFish

LeapFish.com was a search aggregator that retrieved results from other portals and search engines, including Google, Bing and Yahoo!, and also search engines of blogs, videos etc.

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Link rot

Link rot (or linkrot) is the process by which hyperlinks on individual websites or the Internet in general point to web pages, servers or other resources that have become permanently unavailable.

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List of search engines

This is a list of search engines, including web search engines, selection-based search engines, metasearch engines, desktop search tools, and web portals and vertical market websites that have a search facility for online databases.

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Logical connective

In logic, a logical connective (also called a logical operator, sentential connective, or sentential operator) is a symbol or word used to connect two or more sentences (of either a formal or a natural language) in a grammatically valid way, such that the value of the compound sentence produced depends only on that of the original sentences and on the meaning of the connective.

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LookSmart

LookSmart is a search advertising company.

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Lycos

Lycos, Inc., is a web search engine and web portal established in 1995, spun out of Carnegie Mellon University.

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Mark P. McCahill

Mark Perry McCahill (born February 7, 1956) is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

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McGill University

McGill University is a public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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Meta element

Meta elements are tags used in HTML and XHTML documents to provide structured metadata about a Web page.

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Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation (abbreviated as MS) is an American multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, Washington.

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Middle East

The Middle Easttranslit-std; translit; Orta Şərq; Central Kurdish: ڕۆژھەڵاتی ناوین, Rojhelatî Nawîn; Moyen-Orient; translit; translit; translit; Rojhilata Navîn; translit; Bariga Dhexe; Orta Doğu; translit is a transcontinental region centered on Western Asia, Turkey (both Asian and European), and Egypt (which is mostly in North Africa).

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Montreal

Montreal (officially Montréal) is the most populous municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec and the second-most populous municipality in Canada.

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Mosaic (web browser)

NCSA Mosaic, or simply Mosaic, is the web browser that popularized the World Wide Web and the Internet.

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Msnbot

msnbot was a web-crawling robot (type of internet bot), deployed by Microsoft to collect documents from the web to build a searchable index for the MSN Search engine.

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Mugurdy

Mugurdy was a visual search engine that launched its public beta in July 2009.

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Muslim

A Muslim (مُسلِم) is someone who follows or practices Islam, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion.

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Muxlim

Muxlim was primarily known as a social networking website for Muslims that was focused on lifestyle aspects of the community.

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Mystery Seeker

Mystery Seeker was a website based on the Google search engine.

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Nate (web portal)

Nate is a South Korean web portal, developed by SK Communications.

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National Center for Supercomputing Applications

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) is a state-federal partnership to develop and deploy national-scale cyberinfrastructure that advances research, science and engineering based in the United States of America.

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Nature (journal)

Nature is a British multidisciplinary scientific journal, first published on 4 November 1869.

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Naver

Naver (Hangul: 네이버) IPA: nəvɛ́:r is a South Korean online platform operated by Naver Corporation.

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Neo-Nazism

Neo-Nazism consists of post-World War II militant social or political movements seeking to revive and implement the ideology of Nazism.

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Netscape

Netscape is a brand name associated with the development of the Netscape web browser.

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Northern Light Group

Northern Light Group, LLC is a company specializing in strategic research portals, enterprise search technology, and text analytics solutions.

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Organic search

Organic search is a method for entering one or several search terms as a single string of text into a search engine.

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Oscar Nierstrasz

Oscar Marius Nierstrasz, born, is a Professor at the Computer Science Institute (IAM) at the University of Berne, and a specialist in software engineering and programming languages.

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Overture

Overture (from French ouverture, "opening") in music is the term originally applied to the instrumental introduction to an opera.

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PageRank

PageRank (PR) is an algorithm used by Google Search to rank websites in their search engine results.

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Paid inclusion

Paid inclusion is a search engine marketing product where the search engine company charges fees related to inclusion of websites in their search index.

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Parsijoo

Parsijoo (Persian: پارسی‌جو) is an independent knowledge-base Internet company, operating as a search engine for the Persian language.

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Peer-to-peer

Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing or networking is a distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or workloads between peers.

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Perl

Perl is a family of two high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming languages, Perl 5 and Perl 6.

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Picollator

Picollator - Internet search engine that performs search for web sites and multimedia by visual query (image) or text, or a combination of visual query and text.

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Powerset (company)

Powerset was an American company based in San Francisco, California, that, in 2006, was developing a natural language search engine for the Internet.

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Pricesearcher

Pricesearcher is an independent e-commerce search engine launched in the UK in 2016 which helps shoppers find the best prices for products online.

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Principle of least astonishment

The principle of least astonishment (POLA) (alternatively "principle/law/rule of least astonishment/surprise") applies to user interface and software design.

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Privacy concerns regarding Google

Regarding privacy concerns with the technology corporation Google, Google's privacy change (March 1, 2012) enables the company to share data across a wide variety of services.

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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.

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Proxy server

In computer networks, a proxy server is a server (a computer system or an application) that acts as an intermediary for requests from clients seeking resources from other servers.

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Quaero

Quaero (Latin for I seek) was a European research and development program with the goal of developing multimedia and multilingual indexing and management tools for professional and general public applications (such as search engines).

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Question answering

Question answering (QA) is a computer science discipline within the fields of information retrieval and natural language processing (NLP), which is concerned with building systems that automatically answer questions posed by humans in a natural language.

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Qwant

Qwant is a French company that was founded by security specialist Éric Leandri, investor Jean Manuel Rozan and search-engine expert Patrick Constant in 2011.

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Ranking

A ranking is a relationship between a set of items such that, for any two items, the first is either 'ranked higher than', 'ranked lower than' or 'ranked equal to' the second.

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Real-time computing

In computer science, real-time computing (RTC), or reactive computing describes hardware and software systems subject to a "real-time constraint", for example from event to system response.

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Relevance (information retrieval)

In information science and information retrieval, relevance denotes how well a retrieved document or set of documents meets the information need of the user.

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Robots exclusion standard

The robots exclusion standard, also known as the robots exclusion protocol or simply robots.txt, is a standard used by websites to communicate with web crawlers and other web robots.

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SAPO (company)

SAPO (Portuguese for toad), Servidor de Apontadores Portugueses Online (Online Portuguese Links Server), is a brand and subsidiary company of the Portugal Telecom Group.

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Scientific American

Scientific American (informally abbreviated SciAm) is an American popular science magazine.

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Scout (travel website)

Scout, formerly Goby, is a travel website which launched in September 2009.

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Search Encrypt (Search Engine)

Search Encrypt is an Internet search engine that prioritizes maintaining user privacy and avoiding the filter bubble of personalized search results.

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Search engine indexing

Search engine indexing collects, parses, and stores data to facilitate fast and accurate information retrieval.

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Search engine manipulation effect

The search engine manipulation effect (SEME) is the change in consumer preferences from manipulations of search results by search engine providers.

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Search engine optimization

Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of affecting the online visibility of a website or a web page in a web search engine's unpaid results—often referred to as "natural", "organic", or "earned" results.

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Search engine results page

Search Engine Results Pages (SERP) are the pages displayed by search engines in response to a query by a searcher.

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Search Engine Roundtable

Search Engine Roundtable is a news web site that discusses topics related to the premier search engines as reported on Internet forums.

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Search Engine Watch

Search Engine Watch (SEW) provides news and information about search engines and search engine marketing.

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SearchMe

SearchMe was a visual search engine based in Mountain View, California.

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Semantic Web

The Semantic Web is an extension of the World Wide Web through standards by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

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Sergey Brin

Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin (Серге́й Миха́йлович Брин; born August 21, 1973) is a Russian-born American computer scientist and internet entrepreneur.

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Seznam.cz

Seznam.cz (or just Seznam, which means directory in English) is a web portal and search engine in the Czech Republic.

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Sharia

Sharia, Sharia law, or Islamic law (شريعة) is the religious law forming part of the Islamic tradition.

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Site map

A site map (or sitemap) is a list of pages of a web site.

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Sogou

Sogou, Inc. is a public company, founded on 9 August 2010 by Wang Xiaochuan.

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Soso (search engine)

Soso was a Chinese search engine owned by Tencent Holdings Limited, which is well known for its other creations Pengyou and QQ.

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Spell checker

In computing, a spell checker (or spell check) is an application program that flags words in a document that may not be spelled correctly.

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Sproose

Sproose was a consumer search engine launched in August 2007 by founder Bob Pack.

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Teoma

Teoma, pronounced tay o mah (from Scottish Gaelic teòma "expert"), was an Internet search engine founded in 2000 by Professor Apostolos Gerasoulis and his colleagues at Rutgers University in New Jersey.

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Terrorism in Europe

There is a long history of terrorism in Europe.

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Tim Berners-Lee

Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee (born 8 June 1955), also known as TimBL, is an English engineer and computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web.

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University of Geneva

The University of Geneva (French: Université de Genève) is a public research university located in Geneva, Switzerland.

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University of Minnesota

The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (often referred to as the University of Minnesota, Minnesota, the U of M, UMN, or simply the U) is a public research university in Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota.

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Usability

Usability is the ease of use and learnability of a human-made object such as a tool or device.

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User expectations

User expectations refers to the consistency that users expect from products.

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Veronica (search engine)

Veronica was a search engine system for the Gopher protocol, released in November 1992 by Steven Foster and Fred Barrie at the University of Nevada, Reno.

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Veronica Lodge

Veronica Lodge is one of the main characters in the Archie Comics franchise, including The CW's Riverdale.

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Viewzi

Viewzi was a search engine company based in Dallas, Texas that developed a highly visual experience that tailored the way users look at information based on what they are looking for.

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Vivisimo

Vivisimo was a privately held technology company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, specialising in the development of computer search engines.

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Volunia

Volunia was a web search engine (or social search engine) created by Massimo Marchiori.

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W3Catalog

W3 Catalog was a very early web search engine, first released on September 2, 1993 by developer Oscar Nierstrasz at the University of Geneva.

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Web crawler

A Web crawler, sometimes called a spider, is an Internet bot that systematically browses the World Wide Web, typically for the purpose of Web indexing (web spidering).

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Web development tools

Web development tools allow web developers to test and debug their code.

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Web directory

A web directory or link directory is an online list or catalog of websites.

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Web page

A web page (also written as webpage) is a document that is suitable for the World Wide Web and web browsers.

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Web portal

A web portal is a specially designed website that brings information from diverse sources, like emails, online forums and search engines, together in a uniform way.

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Web search query

A web search query is a query that a user enters into a web search engine to satisfy his or her information needs.

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Web server

Web server refers to server software, or hardware dedicated to running said software, that can serve contents to the World Wide Web.

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WebCrawler

WebCrawler was a metasearch engine that blends the top search results from Google Search and Yahoo! Search.

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Weighting

The process of weighting involves emphasizing the contribution of some aspects of a phenomenon (or of a set of data) to a final effect or result, giving them more weight in the analysis.

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WHOIS

WHOIS (pronounced as the phrase "who is") is a query and response protocol that is widely used for querying databases that store the registered users or assignees of an Internet resource, such as a domain name, an IP address block or an autonomous system, but is also used for a wider range of other information.

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Wikia Search

Wikia Search was a short-lived free and open-source web search engine launched by Wikia, a for-profit wiki-hosting company founded in late 2004 by Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley.

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Wikiseek

Wikiseek was a search engine that indexed English Wikipedia pages and pages that were linked to from Wikipedia articles.

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World Wide Web Wanderer

The World Wide Web Wanderer, also referred to as just the Wanderer, was a Perl-based web crawler that was first deployed in June 1993 to measure the size of the World Wide Web.

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World-Wide Web Worm

The World-Wide Web Worm (WWWW) is claimed to be the first search engine for the World-Wide Web, though it was not released until March 1994, by which time a number of other search engines had been made publicly available.

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YaCy

YaCy (pronounced "ya see") is a free distributed search engine, built on principles of peer-to-peer (P2P) networks.

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Yahoo!

Yahoo! is a web services provider headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and wholly owned by Verizon Communications through Oath Inc..

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Yahoo! Japan

is a Japanese internet company originally formed as a joint venture between the American internet company Yahoo! (now Altaba) and the Japanese company SoftBank.

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Yahoo! Search

Yahoo! Search is a web search engine owned by Yahoo, headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

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Yahoo! Search Marketing

Yahoo Search Marketing is a keyword-based "Pay per click" or "Sponsored search" Internet advertising service provided by Yahoo.

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Yandex

Yandex N.V. (p) is a multinational corporation specializing in Internet-related services and products.

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Yebol

Yebol was a vertical "decision" search engine that had developed a knowledge-based, semantic search platform.

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Yooz

Yooz.ir (in Persian: یوز lit. Cheetah) is an Iranian search engine.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_search_engine

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