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  2. Inverse search - Wikipedia

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    Inverse search (also called "reverse search") [1] is a feature of some non-interactive typesetting programs, such as LaTeX and GNU LilyPond. These programs read an abstract, textual, definition of a document as input, and convert this into a graphical format such as DVI or PDF .

  3. Timeline of web search engines - Wikipedia

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    It began as a research project by Michael Loren Mauldin of Carnegie Mellon University's main Pittsburgh campus. 1995 New search engine: Yahoo! Search is launched. It is a search function that allows users to search Yahoo! Directory. [20] [21] It becomes the first popular search engine on the Web. [19] However, it is not a true Web crawler ...

  4. Boolean model of information retrieval - Wikipedia

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    The (standard) Boolean model of information retrieval (BIR) [1] is a classical information retrieval (IR) model and, at the same time, the first and most-adopted one. [2] The BIR is based on Boolean logic and classical set theory in that both the documents to be searched and the user's query are conceived as sets of terms (a bag-of-words model).

  5. Inverted index - Wikipedia

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    In computer science, an inverted index (also referred to as a postings list, postings file, or inverted file) is a database index storing a mapping from content, such as words or numbers, to its locations in a table, or in a document or a set of documents (named in contrast to a forward index, which maps from documents to content). [1]

  6. Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search - Wikipedia

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    The project began in early January 1996, [17] [18] with a program that ran on i386 computers. [19] [20] The name for the project was coined by Luke Welsh, one of its earlier searchers and the co-discoverer of the 29th Mersenne prime. [21] Within a few months, several dozen people had joined, and over a thousand by the end of the first year.

  7. Evaluation measures (information retrieval) - Wikipedia

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    Evaluation measures for an information retrieval (IR) system assess how well an index, search engine, or database returns results from a collection of resources that satisfy a user's query. They are therefore fundamental to the success of information systems and digital platforms.

  8. Archie (search engine) - Wikipedia

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    Archie first appeared in 1986, while Emtage was the systems manager at the McGill University School of Computer Science.His predecessor had attempted to persuade the institution to connect to the Internet, but due to the expensive cost — roughly $35,000 per year for a sluggish link to Boston — it had been challenging to persuade the appropriate parties that the investment was worthwhile.

  9. Distributed search engine - Wikipedia

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    The goals of building a distributed search engine include: 1. to create an independent search engine powered by the community; 2. to make the search operation open and transparent by relying on open-source software; 3. to distribute the advertising revenue to node maintainers, which may help create more robust web infrastructure;