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Singular search engine

Plural search engines

search engine (plural search engines)

  1. (computing) an application that searches for, and retrieves, data based on some criteria, especially one that searches the Internet for documents containing specified words

From Wiktionary under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Wed Feb 24 17:52:11 2010

A web search engine is designed to search for information on the World Wide Web. The search results are usually presented in a list of results and are commonly called hits. The information may consist of web pages, images, information and other types of files. Some search engines also mine data available in databases or open directories. Unlike Web directories, which are maintained by human editors, search engines operate algorithmically or are a mixture of algorithmic and human input.

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Sun Feb 7 12:25:43 2010

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Although we were only in San Jose until Wednesday night we definitely enjoyed ourselves at night and worked our butts off during the day Our team came back to Dallas with more than enough

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Your battle once you sure then we know where we are going what kind of fight we are going up to whose your competitor and way more effective than having battle on 300 different fields

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Mon Feb 15 05:12:09 2010

China's Human Flesh Search Engines - Techland - TIME.com
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China's Human Flesh Search Engines - Techland - TIME.com

Lev Grossman

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:02:19 GM

I'm not super into straight-up repostings of other people's repostings of links, but I am sufficiently skeeved by an article in this weekend's New York Times Magazine that I can't help it.

Best Search Engine : Winner!
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About.com Best . Search Engine. Logo About.com has posted the winners of their 2010 Reader's Choice Awards and we're thrilled to announce that Surf Canyon won in the category of Best . Search Engine. . In their own words, ...

SEO SEM Search Engine Optimization Beginner's Guide | ZenNexus SEO
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Juan C.

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:47:30 GM

Want to learn want SEO-SEM . Search engine. optimization and . search engine. marketing are all about? Robin Good introduces.

From Google Blog Search: "search engine"
Fri Mar 5 13:32:59 2010

How Tiger Woods can rebuild his image online - CNN International
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How Tiger Woods can rebuild his image online

CNN International

These profiles can also rank high in search engines . When you search "Barack Obama" on Google, the president's Twitter profile ranks in the top 10 results ...



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Opera: Google dominates in mobile web search market - BizReport
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Opera: Google dominates in mobile web search market

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However, Google still has stiff competition from local search engines . "While Google performs well globally, we also see several local search engines , ...

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Speed, Playfulness, Key to Successful Web Apps - PC World
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Speed, Playfulness, Key to Successful Web Apps

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Instead of hiring a marketing professional, startups should instead make sure that their Web application is optimized for search engines so that Google and ...



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From Google News Search: "search engine"
Mon Mar 1 13:25:51 2010

What is the best search engine on the internet?
Q. Give me a list of your favorites. Google always brings up website that have paid to be listed, this isn't helpful most of the time. What do you think is the best search engine to use, and get good results?
Asked by 2-4-View - Mon Nov 10 06:57:29 2008 - - 6 Answers - 4 Comments

A. Google is NOT a good search engine because, heck, anyone can make a stupid website and post it there! And wikipedia is the same THING. Some one can change anything on there. They can make the whole thing messed up and stupid. It can be totally false! i would say...JRank. It is the best search engine in the world.
Answered by Britt Britt - Mon Nov 10 21:07:21 2008

How can optimisation search engine be achieved?
Q. I have a problem: Some of my websites rank really high, but those are not my revenue generating sites. I have been unable to replicate the same results across all my sites. Does anyone know of a surefire way to achieve maximum optimisation for search engine? Whether paid or not, as long as it has been proven to work, repeatedly
Asked by Jerzy - Mon Nov 16 21:47:29 2009 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Hiya, I had that problem previously, because I had some affiliate sites that were costing me a fortune on Google Adwords, but not ranking highly on Google Organic Search. Until I happened across this Internet Gurus website, Mark Ling ( ) detailing his tricks for getting massive organic traffic, which is free. I tried it, and all my sites have never looked back since. I just now only run Google Adwords for new products. It might work for you too.
Answered by Caesar - Mon Nov 16 21:56:06 2009

How do I stop my computer from getting notifications about search engine setting?
Q. On the far bottom right side of my computer near the clock/time; I get a notification about my search setting change. IT SAYS... Yahoo! has disabled a program that attempted to change your default search engine.
Asked by Sky Hawk - Sun Feb 15 23:41:57 2009 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments

A. you can tweak the registery so that it will not show you error messages from now on. OR, you can ignore it and after a few weeks, it'll go away. To change the registry, you can search about it on google:) cheers
Answered by Luke - Mon Feb 16 09:05:10 2009

From Yahoo Answer Search: "search engine"
Tue Mar 2 03:28:53 2010

See also:

  • HakiaHakia
    hakia.com
    Ontological semantic and natural language processing (NLP) based search engine.
  • ChaChaChaCha
    chacha.com
    This search engine is a fusion of computer technology and human intelligence. Live human guides are available to provide additional assistance in finding relevant results.
  • Efficient, Automatic Web Resource HarvestingEfficient, Automatic Web Resource Harvesting
    public.lanl.gov
    Research paper which offers a solution for increased indexing efficiency. [PDF]
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