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  2. Full-text search - Wikipedia

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    In text retrieval, full-text search refers to techniques for searching a single computer-stored document or a collection in a full-text database. Full-text search is distinguished from searches based on metadata or on parts of the original texts represented in databases (such as titles, abstracts, selected sections, or bibliographical references).

  3. IFilter - Wikipedia

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    An IFilter acts as a plug-in for extracting full-text and metadata for search engines. A search engine usually works in two steps: [2] [3] The search engine goes through a designated place, e.g. a file folder or a database, and indexes all documents or newly modified documents, including the various types documents, in the background and creates internal data to store indexing result.

  4. Document retrieval - Wikipedia

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    Text retrieval is a branch of information retrieval where the information is stored primarily in the form of text. Text databases became decentralized thanks to the personal computer . Text retrieval is a critical area of study today, since it is the fundamental basis of all internet search engines .

  5. Windows 10 - AOL Help

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    Find help on using Windows 10 for all your favorite AOL sites and apps.

  6. Windows 10 - Wikipedia

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    On May 2, 2017, Microsoft unveiled Windows 10 S (referred to in leaks as Windows 10 Cloud), a feature-limited edition of Windows 10 which was designed primarily for devices in the education market (competing, in particular, with ChromeOS netbooks), such as the Surface Laptop that Microsoft also unveiled at this time. The OS restricts software ...

  7. Search engine indexing - Wikipedia

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    Generating or maintaining a large-scale search engine index represents a significant storage and processing challenge. Many search engines utilize a form of compression to reduce the size of the indices on disk. [20] Consider the following scenario for a full text, Internet search engine. It takes 8 bits (or 1 byte) to store a single character.

  8. Help:Searching/Features - Wikipedia

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    Search for an exact string using a simple regexp; pretest a small search domain. Hack out a highly refined set of page characteristics with concern only for an exact count of pages; refine in a sandbox and on the search results page. The concept of a search domain plays an important part in all this. By default it is just article space, but in ...

  9. Windows Search - Wikipedia

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    Windows Search (formerly MSN Desktop Search, Windows Desktop Search, and the Windows Search Engine) is a content index and desktop search platform by Microsoft introduced in Windows Vista as a replacement for the previous Indexing Service of Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003, designed to facilitate local and remote queries for files and non-file items in the Windows Shell and ...