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  2. Taxonomy for search engines - Wikipedia

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    Taxonomy for search engines refers to classification methods that improve relevance in vertical search. Taxonomies of entities are tree structures whose nodes are labelled with entities likely to occur in a web search query. Searches use these trees to match keywords from a search query to keywords from answers (or snippets).

  3. Web query classification - Wikipedia

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    The search engine can organize the large number of Web pages in the search results, according to the potential categories of the issued query, for the convenience of Web users' navigation. Vertical search, compared to general search, focuses on specific domains and addresses the particular information needs of niche audiences and professions ...

  4. Web query - Wikipedia

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    This example of the Pareto principle (or 80–20 rule) allows search engines to employ optimization techniques such as index or database partitioning, caching and pre-fetching. In addition, studies have been conducted into linguistically-oriented attributes that can recognize if a web query is navigational, informational or transactional.

  5. Faceted search - Wikipedia

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    Faceted search augments lexical search with a faceted navigation system, allowing users to narrow results by applying filters based on a faceted classification of the items. [1] It is a parametric search technique. [ 2 ]

  6. Information retrieval - Wikipedia

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    An information retrieval process begins when a user enters a query into the system. Queries are formal statements of information needs, for example search strings in web search engines. In information retrieval, a query does not uniquely identify a single object in the collection.

  7. AOL Search FAQs - AOL Help

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    AOL Search provides extensive search results along with convenient one-click access to relevant web content, including web results, images, videos, maps, and more. It offers a complete search experience by delivering a diverse range of results in a single search, eliminating the need for additional search queries.

  8. Navigate, read and search on AOL.com - AOL Help

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    Keyword searches give you a wide variety of results without having to perform an advanced search. You are able to search less and discover more! Type a desired word or phrase in the AOL Search field and hit the Enter key on your keyboard or Click the Search button. AOL Search will find the info you want.

  9. Contextual searching - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contextual_searching

    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.