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  2. Contextual searching - Wikipedia

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    Contextual search is a form of optimizing web-based search results based on context provided by the user and the computer being used to enter the query. [1] Contextual search services differ from current search engines based on traditional information retrieval that return lists of documents based on their relevance to the query.

  3. Googlewhack - Wikipedia

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    Lists of these have become available, but as with Googlewhacks, they result in the Googlewhackblatt status of the word being destroyed—unless it is blocked by robots.txt or the word does not produce any Google results before it is added to the list, thus forming the Googlewhackblatt Paradox.

  4. Google Search - Wikipedia

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    The publication 2600: The Hacker Quarterly compiled a list of words that Google Instant did not show suggested results for, with a Google spokesperson giving the following statement to Mashable: [172] There are several reasons you may not be seeing search queries for a particular topic.

  5. List of Google products - Wikipedia

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    An email notification service that sends alerts based on chosen search terms whenever it finds new results. Alerts include web results, Google Groups results, news, and videos. Google Assistant: A virtual assistant. Gemini: A conversational generative artificial intelligence chatbot. Google Books: A search engine for books. Google Dataset Search

  6. Wikipedia : Purging Google search results

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    Google and other search engines will often cache the pages they provide in their search result, to avoid having to look up these pages multiple times and thus slow down searches. For most websites, this doesn't cause any particular problem, as many websites will remain (mostly) unchanged between googlebot runs. Wikipedia, of course, is far more ...

  7. Google Personalized Search - Wikipedia

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    Google accounts logged into Google Chrome use user's web history to learn what sites and content they like and base the search results presented on them. Using the data provided by the user Google constructs a profile including gender, age, languages, and interests based on prior behaviour using Google services.

  8. Ranking (information retrieval) - Wikipedia

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    Ranking of query is one of the fundamental problems in information retrieval (IR), [1] the scientific/engineering discipline behind search engines. [2] Given a query q and a collection D of documents that match the query, the problem is to rank, that is, sort, the documents in D according to some criterion so that the "best" results appear early in the result list displayed to the user.

  9. Help:Searching from a web browser - Wikipedia

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    To get Wikipedia search results while on any web page, you can temporarily set your browser's (web-based) search box to interface the Wikipedia search engine and land on Wikipedia's search results page. This trick removes the need to first navigate to Wikipedia from a web page, and then do the search or navigation. It is a temporary change, and ...