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Search engine

The term search engine refers to a search application that provides links to web pages and other relevant information on the Web (or the Internet in general) in response to a user's query. Users submit their queries through a web browser or a mobile app, and the results page generally displays a collection of hyperlinks together with brief descriptions…

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History

Approach

Market share

Search engine bias

Customized results and filter bubbles

Religious search engines

Search engine submission

Comparison to social bookmarking

Technology

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Search engine

Nodes183
Edges182
Triples263
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.010929
Components1

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Search engine

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related to Further reading · 62
Search engine → Accessibility, AID-ASI70, American Society, An, An Introduction, Archived, ARIST, August, Behind, Bibcode, Bing Liu, CO, Contents, Dietmar, End, Evaluating Search Engines, Excite, Exploring Hyperlinks, February, Global Internet Industry
related to Religious search engines · 24
Search engine → Arab, Asian, Bing, Christian, Google, Halalgoogling, ImHalal, Internet, Islamic, Jewish, Jewogle, July, Middle East, More, Muslim, Muxlim, Other, Rite Internet Ventures, SeekFind, September
related to 2000s–present: Post dot-com bubble · 23
Search engine → AlltheWeb, AltaVista, Around, By, Engine, Google, Google's, In, Inktomi, Inktomi's, Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search, Larry Page, Larry Page's, Mystery Seeker, Overture, PageRank, RankDex, Robin Li's, Sergey Brin, The
related to 1990s: Birth of search engines · 17
Search engine → Archie, Before September, CERN, December, FTP, Knowbot Information Service, NCSA, On, One, September, The, There, Tim Berners-Lee, Web, What's New, WHOIS, World Wide Web
related to Excite · 13
Search engine → Architext, At, Excite, February, Home, In, InfoSpace, Internet, It, Once, Stanford, Their, Web Servers
related to Archie · 12
Search engine → Alan Emtage, Any FTP, Archie, File Transfer Protocol, FTP, Internet, It, McGill University, Montreal, The, They, When
related to Customized results and filter bubbles · 12
Search engine → According, As, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Eli Pariser, Google, However, On, Pariser's, Since, The, There
related to Yahoo! · 12
Search engine → As, Because Yahoo, David Filo, In, In April, Instead, Jerry Yang, Stanford University PhD, The, Their, They, Yahoo
related to Market share · 11
Search engine → As, Bing, Google, Google's, In, January, Justice, Other, US Department, Yahoo, Yandex
related to East Asia · 10
Search engine → Baidu, Bing, China, Chinese, Google, In China, Microsoft's, Other, Search, Sogou

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search engine web engines google results information yahoo pages internet page first users index also market share sites indexing user

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Hyper Searchinstance ofwhich are similar to modern hyperlinks.Link analysis eventually became a crucial component of search engines through algorithms0.80text
PageRank.1990sinstance ofwhich are similar to modern hyperlinks.Link analysis eventually became a crucial component of search engines through algorithms0.80text
Mystery Seeker.By 2000instance ofthe Google search engine became so popular that spoof engines emerged0.80text
Yahooinstance ofthe Google search engine became so popular that spoof engines emerged0.80text
PageRankinstance ofwhich are similar to modern hyperlinks.Link analysis eventually became a crucial component of search engines through algorithms0.80text
Sogouinstance ofOther domestic engines0.80text
360 Search hold smaller sharesinstance ofOther domestic engines0.80text
Googleinstance ofCustomized results and filter bubblesThere has been concern raised that search engines0.80text
Bing provide customized results based on the user's activity historyinstance ofCustomized results and filter bubblesThere has been concern raised that search engines0.80text
leading to what has been termed echo chambers or filter bubbles by Eli Pariser in 2011instance ofCustomized results and filter bubblesThere has been concern raised that search engines0.80text
Yahooinstance ofbut it still did not have the mass appeal of search engines0.80text
Search enginerelated to 1990s: Birth of search enginesThe0.60section

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