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  2. Meta element - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_element

    Meta elements provide information about the web page, which can be used by search engines to help categorize the page correctly. They have been the focus of a field of marketing research known as search engine optimization (SEO), where different methods are used to provide a user's website with a higher ranking on search engines.

  3. Metasearch engine - Wikipedia

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    In August 2000, India got its first meta search engine when HumHaiIndia.com was launched. [12] It was developed by the then 16 year old Sumeet Lamba. [13] The website was later rebranded as Tazaa.com. [14] Ixquick is a search engine known for its privacy policy statement. Developed and launched in 1998 by David Bodnick, it is owned by Surfboard ...

  4. HTTP referer - Wikipedia

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    It is possible to access the referrer information on the client side using document.referrer in JavaScript. [12] This can be used, for example, to individualize a web page based on a user's search engine query. However, the referrer field does not always include search keywords, such as when using Google Search with HTTPS. [13]

  5. robots.txt - Wikipedia

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    In addition to root-level robots.txt files, robots exclusion directives can be applied at a more granular level through the use of Robots meta tags and X-Robots-Tag HTTP headers. The robots meta tag cannot be used for non-HTML files such as images, text files, or PDF documents.

  6. Search engine indexing - Wikipedia

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    Popular search engines focus on the full-text indexing of online, natural language documents. [1] Media types such as pictures, video, [2] audio, [3] and graphics [4] are also searchable. Meta search engines reuse the indices of other services and do not store a local index whereas cache-based search engines permanently store the index along ...

  7. Wikipedia:Controlling search engine indexing - Wikipedia

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    The default behavior is that articles older than 90 days are indexed. All of the methods rely on using the noindex HTML meta tag, which tells search engines not to index certain pages. Respecting the tag, especially in terms of removing already indexed content, is up to the individual search engine, and in theory the tag may be ignored entirely.

  8. Meta refresh - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_refresh

    Meta refresh is a method of instructing a web browser to automatically refresh the current web page or frame after a given time interval, using an HTML meta element with the http-equiv parameter set to "refresh" and a content parameter giving the time interval in seconds.

  9. List of HTTP header fields - Wikipedia

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    Mainly used to identify Ajax requests (most JavaScript frameworks send this field with value of XMLHttpRequest); also identifies Android apps using WebView [23] X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest: DNT [24] Requests a web application to disable their tracking of a user. This is Mozilla's version of the X-Do-Not-Track header field (since Firefox 4. ...