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  2. Disconnect (software) - Wikipedia

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    Disconnect is a partly open source [1] browser extension and mobile app designed to stop non-consensual third party trackers, [2] and providing private web search and private web browsing. [3] On mobile, it is available for Android and iPhone. It was developed by Brian Kennish and Casey Oppenheim.

  3. Help:Searching from a web browser - Wikipedia

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    Firefox has Wikipedia listed as a default search engine and can be set to such. It also has a keyword search function which allows the search engine to be changed when a certain keyword is typed to trigger such. To set Wikipedia as the default search engine: Click the hamburger menu and go to the 'Options' menu. In the options menu, click on ...

  4. List of search engines - Wikipedia

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    Search engines, including web search engines, selection-based search engines, metasearch engines, desktop search tools, and web portals and vertical market websites ...

  5. Help:Searching - Wikipedia

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    several external search engines' views of Wikipedia. The search results page will then have a pull down list to the left of its search box, offering your choice as, say, a modification of a word or phrase search, or a page ranking refinement. Go to Preferences → Gadgets Appearance, and see "Add a selector to the Wikipedia search page allowing ...

  6. Wikipedia:Controlling search engine indexing - Wikipedia

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    Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 59 § NOINDEX of all non-content namespaces – Mixed discussion to exclude all non-content namespaces from indexing. Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 62 § Where and when to use NOINDEX to remove pages from search engines – Proposal to exclude certain pages from indexing.

  7. 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 ...

  8. Search engine (computing) - Wikipedia

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    In computing, a search engine is an information retrieval software system designed to help find information stored on one or more computer systems. Search engines discover, crawl, transform, and store information for retrieval and presentation in response to user queries. The search results are usually presented in a list and are commonly ...

  9. 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 ...