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  2. Search engine indexing - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_indexing

    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. [19] Consider the following scenario for a full text, Internet search engine. It takes 8 bits (or 1 byte) to store a single character.

  3. Search engine cache - Wikipedia

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    The search engine might make the copy accessible to users. Web crawlers that obey restrictions in robots.txt [2] or meta tags [3] by the site webmaster may not make a cached copy available to search engine users if instructed not to. Search engine cache can be used for crime investigation, [4] legal proceedings [5] and journalism. [6] [1 ...

  4. Search engine - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Restore your browser to default settings - AOL Help

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    If you've cleared the cache in your web browser, but are still experiencing issues, you may need to restore its original settings.This can remove adware, get rid of extensions you didn't install, and improve overall performance.

  6. 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 ...

  7. AOL Search FAQs - AOL Help

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    When seeking online information, many people turn to search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo, or AOL Search. These search engines function as digital indexes, organizing available content by topic and sub-topic, much like an index in a book. Each search engine builds its index using distinct methods, typically beginning with an automated ...

  8. Web crawler - Wikipedia

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    mnoGoSearch is a crawler, indexer and a search engine written in C and licensed under the GPL (*NIX machines only) Open Search Server is a search engine and web crawler software release under the GPL. Scrapy, an open source webcrawler framework, written in python (licensed under BSD). Seeks, a free distributed search engine (licensed under AGPL).

  9. Adjust your zoom settings in AOL Desktop Gold

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    1. Sign in to Desktop Gold. 2. Navigate to a webpage. 3. In the bottom right corner you can see the current zoom setting. 4. Click the + and -buttons to adjust your zoom level.