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  2. Home directory - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_directory

    A home directory is a file system directory on a multi-user operating system containing files for a given user of the system. The specifics of the home directory (such as its name and location) are defined by the operating system involved; for example, Linux / BSD systems use /home/ username or /usr/home/ username and Windows systems since Windows Vista use \Users\ username .

  3. List of search engines - Wikipedia

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    Cross-platform open-source desktop search engine. Unmaintained since 2011-06-02 [9]. LGPL v2 [10] Terrier Search Engine: Linux, Mac OS X, Unix: Desktop search for Windows, Mac OS X (Tiger), Unix/Linux. MPL v1.1 [11] Tracker: Linux, Unix: Open-source desktop search tool for Unix/Linux GPL v2 [12] Tropes Zoom: Windows: Semantic Search Engine (no ...

  4. Search engine - Wikipedia

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    A search engine maintains the following processes in near real time: [34] Web crawling; Indexing; Searching [35] Web search engines get their information by web crawling from site to site. The "spider" checks for the standard filename robots.txt, addressed to it. The robots.txt file contains directives for search spiders, telling it which pages ...

  5. Wikipedia:External search engines - Wikipedia

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    Also, when returning Wikipedia articles in a regular search, mirrors and forks of Wikipedia content frequently rank higher than the actual Wikipedia articles because of search engine optimization techniques. These issues may be less of a problem when using certain search engines that process Wikipedia differently: Google tends to include ...

  6. List of web directories - Wikipedia

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    2345.com – Chinese web directory founded in 2005. The website is the second most used web directory in China. Alleba – Filipino search engine website, with directory. Dalilmasr – Egyptian online directory; Timway – web portal and directory primarily serving Hong Kong.

  7. Comparison of search engines - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  8. Timeline of web search engines - Wikipedia

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    It is the first WWW resource-discovery tool to combine the three essential features of a web search engine (crawling, indexing, and searching). [13] [14] [18] 1994 January New web directory: Yahoo!, founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo, launches Yahoo! Directory. [14] It becomes the first popular Web directory. [19] New web search engine ...

  9. Web directory - Wikipedia

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    A web directory or link directory is an online list or catalog of websites. That is, it is a directory on the World Wide Web of (all or part of) the World Wide Web. Historically, directories typically listed entries on people or businesses, and their contact information; such directories are still in use today.