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The first table lists the company behind the engine, volume and ad support and identifies the nature of the software being used as free software or proprietary software. The second and third table lists internet privacy aspects along with other technical parameters, such as whether the engine provides personalization (alternatively viewed as a ...
An example of the Scunthorpe problem in Wikipedia because of a regular expression identifying "cunt" in the username. The Scunthorpe problem is the unintentional blocking of online content by a spam filter or search engine because their text contains a string (or substring) of letters that appear to have an obscene or otherwise unacceptable meaning.
CNET TV was composed of CNET Central, The Web, and The New Edge. [13] [14] CNET Central was created first and aired in syndication in the United States on the USA Network. Later, it began airing on USA's sister network Sci-Fi Channel along with The Web and The New Edge. [13] These were later followed by TV.com in 1996.
In July 1996, Minor took CNET public. [6] In 1997, Minor started a search engine called Snap.com [7] with $25 million in funding and 150 employees from CNET. The decision to create a search engine was "universally booed" and caused CNET's stock to decline. [6] [8] Two years later Minor sold a 60% interest in Snap to NBC for $500 million.
Most search engines employ methods to rank the results to provide the "best" results first. How a search engine decides which pages are the best matches, and what order the results should be shown in, varies widely from one engine to another. [35] The methods also change over time as Internet usage changes and new techniques evolve.
Google Panda is a major change to Google's search results ranking algorithm that was first released in February 2011. The change aimed to lower the rank of "low-quality sites" or "thin sites", [ 1 ] in particular " content farms ", [ 2 ] and return higher-quality sites near the top of the search results.
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