14 Facts About Web search

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The Web search results are generally presented in a line of results, often referred to as Web search engine results pages .

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Unlike web directories and social bookmarking sites, which are maintained by human editors, search engines maintain real-time information by running an algorithm on a web crawler.

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System for locating published information intended to overcome the ever increasing difficulty of locating information in ever-growing centralized indices of scientific work was described in 1945 by Vannevar Bush, who wrote an article in The Atlantic Monthly titled "As We May Think" in which he envisioned libraries of reWeb search with connected annotations not unlike modern hyperlinks.

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Web search 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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Web search engines get their information by web crawling from site to site.

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Between visits by the spider, the cached version of the page stored in the Web search engine working memory is quickly sent to an inquirer.

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Typically when a user enters a query into a Web search engine it is a few keywords.

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Some Web search engines provide an advanced feature called proximity Web search, which allows users to define the distance between keywords.

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Usefulness of a Web search engine depends on the relevance of the result set it gives back.

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How a Web 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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The Web search engines make money every time someone clicks on one of these ads.

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Local Web search is the process that optimizes the efforts of local businesses.

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Since this problem has been identified, competing Web search engines have emerged that seek to avoid this problem by not tracking or "bubbling" users, such as DuckDuckGo.

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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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