Search engine is a software system designed to carry out web searches.
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12 Facts About Search engine
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The first well documented search engine that searched content files, namely FTP files, was Archie, which debuted on 10 September 1990.
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The program downloaded the directory listings of all the files located on public anonymous FTP sites, creating a searchable database of file names; however, Archie Search Engine did not index the contents of these sites since the amount of data was so limited it could be readily searched manually.
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Many search engine companies were caught up in the dot-com bubble, a speculation-driven market boom that peaked in March 2000.
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Search engine achieved better results for many searches with an algorithm called PageRank, as was explained in the paper Anatomy of a Search Engine written by Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the later founders of Google.
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Search engine maintains the following processes in near real time:.
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Typically when a user enters a query into a search engine it is a few keywords.
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Usefulness of a search engine depends on the relevance of the result set it gives back.
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How a search engine decides which pages are the best matches, and what order the results should be shown in, varies widely from one engine to another.
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Biases can be a result of social processes, as search engine algorithms are frequently designed to exclude non-normative viewpoints in favor of more "popular" results.
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Web search engine submission is a process in which a webmaster submits a website directly to a search engine.
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