What is Search engines: Definition and 12 Discussions

A web search engine or Internet search engine is a software system that is designed to carry out web searches. They search the World Wide Web in a systematic way for particular information specified in a textual web search query. The search results are generally presented in a line of results, often referred to as search engine results pages (SERPs) The information may be a mix of links to web pages, images, videos, infographics, articles, research papers, and other types of files. Some search engines also mine data available in databases or open directories. Unlike web directories, which are maintained only by human editors, search engines also maintain real-time information by running an algorithm on a web crawler. Internet content that is not capable of being searched by a web search engine is generally described as the deep web.

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  1. Kadardur

    Other Finding a book by some citations

    Hello! I am looking for a book about statistic applications, I don't know the name or any other ditails, just some quotes. I don't have too much experience in such search. If anyone can help me I will be very thankful. There is a PDF file attached, there is some questions and solutions, I guess...
  2. Thomaz

    Other Best Search Engines for Academic Papers - arXiv and Beyond

    What are the best search engines of academic papers in your opinion? as of right now I'm only searching on arXiv :(
  3. M

    Limitation of the number of search terms in search engines

    Why does Google limit its searches with 32 terms? I think other search engines seems to not limit but adding more terms for some reasons such as filtering does not work, for example in Yahoo. Thank you.
  4. P

    How do Search Engine Optimizers work?

    I know a bunch of people who have their own website or blog, including myself. When you search some of the sites’ names, they pop up immediately as the very first link and, for other ones, it just never pops up. I’ve tried to read about this, but I find it hard to understand. How does this work...
  5. M

    A question about search engines.

    Can you explain me why search engines sometimes can not find existing entries. I can find them in the site, I can see them but Google and Bing can not find them. Best Regards.
  6. I

    Could google scholar replace other search engines?

    We have many engines to search the literature, such as sciencedirect and so on. And we also have google scholar to search the whole literature. Is it a good idea to use only google scholar since it looks complete enough? What's your opinion?
  7. Astronuc

    US vs Google and Search Engines

    It appears that the US government has determined that Google is perhaps too successful, or that in being successful in it's market has abused it's power/influence. U.S. Escalates Google Case by Hiring Noted Outside Lawyer...
  8. berkeman

    Useful EE Links and Search Engines

    I came across another good search engine today looking for a datasheet, so I thought I'd try starting this thread for folks to post useful links. The links should be to technical content, and not to paid services. Good free datasheet search engine: http://www.datasheetpro.com/ Good way to...
  9. Z

    Road to faster search engines?

    Might a road to significantly faster search engines (25% faster) be via use of a cache of say the 100,000 most frequent search words and phrases utilized, typical for over a year? Might one have perhaps a number of distributive caches for a multitude of different processors and associated memories?
  10. E

    How to get the toppest place in search engines?

    i see that pf is the very first results while searching for a physics forum. why?? is it because it has more vistors than other sites? what's google ranking or other search engines base on?
  11. A

    How Can I Search for Specific Characters in .html and .txt Files Offline?

    So I want to look for specific characters within my .html and .txt files offline. But even when I google offline search engine, I can't find a suitable search engine. Windows Vista Search doesn't seem to have a search engine that works for strings within particular files (it just seems to work...
  12. Cyrus

    Search Engine Quality Decreasing - Is Anyone Else Seeing It?

    Is it just me, or is it really hard to get good results when you google something lately? It used to be that I would find what I wanted fast, now I search something and I get nothing but garbage. Anyone else notice this change lately?
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