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A search engine is program that searches documents for specified keywords and returns a list of the documents where the keywords were found.

A search engine is a program that searches documents for specified keywords and returns a list of the documents where the keywords were found.

Although search engine is really a general class of programs, the term is often used to specifically describe systems like Google, Yahoo!, Yandex and Excite that enable users to search for documents on the World Wide Web and USENET newsgroups.

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Does google allow businesses to use "Did you Mean" feature as an api?? I would like to use it but I am not getting anything

I want to use Google API for Did you mean feature. So basically I want to write a piece of code, which sends a word to Google search and either Google finds the exact hits or gives a "DID YOU MEAN" reply which i would use. Is it made available?…
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Why do search engine crawlers not run javascript?

I have been working with some advanced javascript applications using a lot of ajax requests to render my page. To make the applications crawlable (by google), I have to follow https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/?hl=fr . This…
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API alternative to Google trends

Is there any API that I can use to rank search terms according to their popularity? An official Google API was announced to be released, however there isn't any. Any suggestions on what I may use alternatively?
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How does "DHT search engine" work?

I'm interested in the Btdigg.org which is called a "DHT search engine". According to this article, it doesn't store any content and even has no database. Then how does it work? Doesn't it need to gather meta infos and store them in database like…
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Simple site search with Duckduckgo

I would like to add simple site search, using Duckduckgo, limited to search only "example.com". Stackoverflow has solved this, using some JavaScript to add the site:example.com filter to the query.
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How to evaluate a search/retrieval engine using trec_eval?

Is there any body who has used TREC_EVAL? I need a "Trec_EVAL for dummies". I'm trying to evaluate a few search engines to compare parameters like Recall-Precision, ranking quality, etc for my thesis work. I can not find how to use TREC_EVAL to…
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Meaning of parameters in a Google search query?

Are there any resources on what the parameters in a Google query mean? Any analysis how the Google search pages work internally? Examples would…
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how to configure the synonyms_path in elasticsearch

i'm pretty new to elasticsearch and i want to use synonyms, i added these lines in the configuration file: index : analysis : analyzer : synonym : type : custom tokenizer : whitespace …
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inline SVG - best alternative to "alt" tag normally used for < img > SEO?

Say I were to swap out an within my main site header to use SVG instead. Normally I would depend on the 's alt tag. Is the SVG the best replacement method for "alt" with this type of changeover? <svg role="img"…</div> <div class="grid ai-start jc-space-between fw-wrap"> <div class="grid gs4 fw-wrap tags "> <a href="../../questions/tagged/html" class="post-tag grid--cell" title="show questions tagged 'html'" rel="tag">html</a> <a href="../../questions/tagged/optimization" class="post-tag grid--cell" title="show questions tagged 'optimization'" rel="tag">optimization</a> <a href="../../questions/tagged/seo" class="post-tag grid--cell" title="show questions tagged 'seo'" rel="tag">seo</a> <a href="../../questions/tagged/search-engine" class="post-tag grid--cell" title="show questions tagged 'search-engine'" rel="tag">search-engine</a> </div> <div class="started mt0"> <div class="s-user-card s-user-card"> <time class="s-user-card--time" datetime="asked Nov 13 '12 at 23:37">asked Nov 13 '12 at 23:37</time> <a href="../../users/594646/joe" class="s-avatar s-avatar__32 s-user-card--avatar"> <img class="s-avatar--image" src="../../users/profiles/594646.webp" data-jdenticon-width="32" data-jdenticon-height="32" data-jdenticon-value="Joe" /> </a> <div class="s-user-card--info"> <a href="../../users/594646/joe" class="s-user-card--link">Joe</a> <ul class="s-user-card--awards"> <li class="s-user-card--rep" title="reputation score">5,955</li> <li class="s-award-bling s-award-bling__gold" title="2 gold badges">2</li> <li class="s-award-bling s-award-bling__silver" title="29 silver badges">29</li> <li class="s-award-bling s-award-bling__bronze" title="42 bronze badges">42</li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="mln24"> <div class="question-summary" id="question-summary-9829161"> <div class="statscontainer"> <div class="stats"> <div class="vote"> <div class="votes"> <span class="vote-count-post"><strong>15</strong></span> <div class="viewcount">votes</div> </div> </div> <div class="status answered-accepted"> <strong>3</strong> answers </div> </div> </div> <div class="summary"> <h3><a href="../../questions/9829161/lucene-how-to-boost-some-specific-field" class="question-hyperlink">Lucene: how to boost some specific field</a></h3> <div class="excerpt">In my case, documents have two fields, for example, "title" and "views". "views" is represented the num of times that people have visited this document. like: "title":"iphone", "views":"10". I have to develop a strategy that will assign some…</div> <div class="grid ai-start jc-space-between fw-wrap"> <div class="grid gs4 fw-wrap tags "> <a href="../../questions/tagged/lucene" class="post-tag grid--cell" title="show questions tagged 'lucene'" rel="tag">lucene</a> <a href="../../questions/tagged/search-engine" class="post-tag grid--cell" title="show questions tagged 'search-engine'" rel="tag">search-engine</a> </div> <div class="started mt0"> <div class="s-user-card s-user-card"> <time class="s-user-card--time" datetime="asked Mar 22 '12 at 19:27">asked Mar 22 '12 at 19:27</time> <a href="../../users/1233647/remy" class="s-avatar s-avatar__32 s-user-card--avatar"> <img class="s-avatar--image" src="../../users/profiles/1233647.webp" data-jdenticon-width="32" data-jdenticon-height="32" data-jdenticon-value="remy" /> </a> <div class="s-user-card--info"> <a href="../../users/1233647/remy" class="s-user-card--link">remy</a> <ul class="s-user-card--awards"> <li class="s-user-card--rep" title="reputation score">1,255</li> <li class="s-award-bling s-award-bling__gold" title="6 gold badges">6</li> <li class="s-award-bling s-award-bling__silver" title="20 silver badges">20</li> <li class="s-award-bling s-award-bling__bronze" title="27 bronze badges">27</li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="mln24"> <div class="question-summary" id="question-summary-7170854"> <div class="statscontainer"> <div class="stats"> <div class="vote"> <div class="votes"> <span class="vote-count-post"><strong>15</strong></span> <div class="viewcount">votes</div> </div> </div> <div class="status "> <strong>1</strong> answer </div> </div> </div> <div class="summary"> <h3><a href="../../questions/7170854/precision-recall-in-lucene-java" class="question-hyperlink">Precision recall in lucene java</a></h3> <div class="excerpt">I want to use Lucene to calculate Precision and Recall. I did these steps: Made some index files. To do this I used indexer code and indexed .txt files which exist in this path C:/inn (there are 4 text files in this folder) and take them in "outt"…</div> <div class="grid ai-start jc-space-between fw-wrap"> <div class="grid gs4 fw-wrap tags "> <a href="../../questions/tagged/java" class="post-tag grid--cell" title="show questions tagged 'java'" rel="tag">java</a> <a href="../../questions/tagged/lucene" class="post-tag grid--cell" title="show questions tagged 'lucene'" rel="tag">lucene</a> <a href="../../questions/tagged/search-engine" class="post-tag grid--cell" title="show questions tagged 'search-engine'" rel="tag">search-engine</a> </div> <div class="started mt0"> <div class="s-user-card s-user-card"> <time class="s-user-card--time" datetime="asked Aug 24 '11 at 05:31">asked Aug 24 '11 at 05:31</time> <a href="../../users/908887/bluegirl" class="s-avatar s-avatar__32 s-user-card--avatar"> <img class="s-avatar--image" src="../../users/profiles/908887.webp" data-jdenticon-width="32" data-jdenticon-height="32" data-jdenticon-value="BlueGirl" /> </a> <div class="s-user-card--info"> <a href="../../users/908887/bluegirl" class="s-user-card--link">BlueGirl</a> <ul class="s-user-card--awards"> <li class="s-user-card--rep" title="reputation score">491</li> <li class="s-award-bling s-award-bling__gold" title="2 gold badges">2</li> <li class="s-award-bling s-award-bling__silver" title="9 silver badges">9</li> <li class="s-award-bling s-award-bling__bronze" title="29 bronze badges">29</li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="mln24"> <div class="question-summary" id="question-summary-34220699"> <div class="statscontainer"> <div class="stats"> <div class="vote"> <div class="votes"> <span class="vote-count-post"><strong>15</strong></span> <div class="viewcount">votes</div> </div> </div> <div class="status "> <strong>1</strong> answer </div> </div> </div> <div class="summary"> <h3><a href="../../questions/34220699/diversified-results-on-elasticsearch-search" class="question-hyperlink">Diversified results on Elasticsearch search</a></h3> <div class="excerpt">I've done a complex query using the popularity to improve the results of social media documents using Elasticsearch. The query works really fine and the top results are always centered on the query and with interesting elements. However it has a…</div> <div class="grid ai-start jc-space-between fw-wrap"> <div class="grid gs4 fw-wrap tags "> <a href="../../questions/tagged/elasticsearch" class="post-tag grid--cell" title="show questions tagged 'elasticsearch'" rel="tag">elasticsearch</a> <a href="../../questions/tagged/lucene" class="post-tag grid--cell" title="show questions tagged 'lucene'" rel="tag">lucene</a> <a href="../../questions/tagged/search-engine" class="post-tag grid--cell" title="show questions tagged 'search-engine'" rel="tag">search-engine</a> <a href="../../questions/tagged/elasticsearch-aggregation" class="post-tag grid--cell" title="show questions tagged 'elasticsearch-aggregation'" rel="tag">elasticsearch-aggregation</a> </div> <div class="started mt0"> <div class="s-user-card s-user-card"> <time class="s-user-card--time" datetime="asked Dec 11 '15 at 10:00">asked Dec 11 '15 at 10:00</time> <a href="../../users/2280509/david-mabodo" class="s-avatar s-avatar__32 s-user-card--avatar"> <img class="s-avatar--image" src="../../users/profiles/2280509.webp" data-jdenticon-width="32" data-jdenticon-height="32" data-jdenticon-value="David Mabodo" /> </a> <div class="s-user-card--info"> <a href="../../users/2280509/david-mabodo" class="s-user-card--link">David Mabodo</a> <ul class="s-user-card--awards"> <li class="s-user-card--rep" title="reputation score">745</li> <li class="s-award-bling s-award-bling__silver" title="5 silver badges">5</li> <li class="s-award-bling s-award-bling__bronze" title="16 bronze badges">16</li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="mln24"> <div class="question-summary" id="question-summary-2850202"> <div class="statscontainer"> <div class="stats"> <div class="vote"> <div class="votes"> <span class="vote-count-post"><strong>15</strong></span> <div class="viewcount">votes</div> </div> </div> <div class="status answered-accepted"> <strong>5</strong> answers </div> </div> </div> <div class="summary"> <h3><a href="../../questions/2850202/meta-search-engine-architecture" class="question-hyperlink">Meta Search Engine Architecture</a></h3> <div class="excerpt">The question wasn't clear enough, I think; here's an updated straight to the point question: What are the common architectures used in building a meta search engine and is there any libraries available to build that type of search engine? I'm…</div> <div class="grid ai-start jc-space-between fw-wrap"> <div class="grid gs4 fw-wrap tags "> <a href="../../questions/tagged/java" class="post-tag grid--cell" title="show questions tagged 'java'" rel="tag">java</a> <a href="../../questions/tagged/design-patterns" class="post-tag grid--cell" title="show questions tagged 'design-patterns'" rel="tag">design-patterns</a> <a href="../../questions/tagged/search-engine" class="post-tag grid--cell" title="show questions tagged 'search-engine'" rel="tag">search-engine</a> <a href="../../questions/tagged/meta-search" class="post-tag grid--cell" title="show questions tagged 'meta-search'" rel="tag">meta-search</a> </div> <div class="started mt0"> <div class="s-user-card s-user-card"> <time class="s-user-card--time" datetime="asked May 17 '10 at 15:08">asked May 17 '10 at 15:08</time> <a href="../../users/39057/loki" class="s-avatar s-avatar__32 s-user-card--avatar"> <img class="s-avatar--image" src="../../users/profiles/39057.webp" data-jdenticon-width="32" data-jdenticon-height="32" data-jdenticon-value="Loki" /> </a> <div class="s-user-card--info"> <a href="../../users/39057/loki" class="s-user-card--link">Loki</a> <ul class="s-user-card--awards"> <li class="s-user-card--rep" title="reputation score">29,950</li> <li class="s-award-bling s-award-bling__gold" title="9 gold badges">9</li> <li class="s-award-bling s-award-bling__silver" title="48 silver badges">48</li> <li class="s-award-bling s-award-bling__bronze" title="62 bronze badges">62</li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="mln24"> <div class="question-summary" id="question-summary-18340097"> <div class="statscontainer"> <div class="stats"> <div class="vote"> <div class="votes"> <span class="vote-count-post"><strong>15</strong></span> <div class="viewcount">votes</div> </div> </div> <div class="status answered-accepted"> <strong>7</strong> answers </div> </div> </div> <div class="summary"> <h3><a href="../../questions/18340097/what-is-the-fastest-substring-search-method-in-java" class="question-hyperlink">what is the fastest substring search method in Java</a></h3> <div class="excerpt">I need to implement a way to search substring (needles) in a list of string (haystack) using Java. More specifically, my app has a list of user profiles. If I type some letters, for example, "Ja", and then search, then all the users whose name…</div> <div class="grid ai-start jc-space-between fw-wrap"> <div class="grid gs4 fw-wrap tags "> <a href="../../questions/tagged/java" class="post-tag grid--cell" title="show questions tagged 'java'" rel="tag">java</a> <a href="../../questions/tagged/regex" class="post-tag grid--cell" title="show questions tagged 'regex'" rel="tag">regex</a> <a href="../../questions/tagged/search" class="post-tag grid--cell" title="show questions tagged 'search'" rel="tag">search</a> <a href="../../questions/tagged/substring" class="post-tag grid--cell" title="show questions tagged 'substring'" rel="tag">substring</a> <a href="../../questions/tagged/search-engine" class="post-tag grid--cell" title="show questions tagged 'search-engine'" rel="tag">search-engine</a> </div> <div class="started mt0"> <div class="s-user-card s-user-card"> <time class="s-user-card--time" datetime="asked Aug 20 '13 at 16:16">asked Aug 20 '13 at 16:16</time> <a href="../../users/1387727/joey" class="s-avatar s-avatar__32 s-user-card--avatar"> <img class="s-avatar--image" src="../../users/profiles/1387727.webp" data-jdenticon-width="32" data-jdenticon-height="32" data-jdenticon-value="Joey" /> </a> <div class="s-user-card--info"> <a href="../../users/1387727/joey" class="s-user-card--link">Joey</a> <ul class="s-user-card--awards"> <li class="s-user-card--rep" title="reputation score">2,732</li> <li class="s-award-bling s-award-bling__gold" title="11 gold badges">11</li> <li class="s-award-bling s-award-bling__silver" title="43 silver badges">43</li> <li class="s-award-bling s-award-bling__bronze" title="63 bronze badges">63</li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="mln24"> <div class="question-summary" id="question-summary-13754712"> <div class="statscontainer"> <div class="stats"> <div class="vote"> <div class="votes"> <span class="vote-count-post"><strong>15</strong></span> <div class="viewcount">votes</div> </div> </div> <div class="status answered-accepted"> <strong>3</strong> answers </div> </div> </div> <div class="summary"> <h3><a href="../../questions/13754712/why-google-webmaster-tools-don-t-see-the-static-version-of-my-site-but-instead" class="question-hyperlink">Why google webmaster tools don't see the static version of my site but instead the template for the dynamic one?</a></h3> <div class="excerpt">I have added the spiderable package package to my Meteor app, and the html version of the page is returned when making requests with ?_escaped_fragment_= in the url, but I'm unable to get Google to crawl the site. Details When using Fetch as Google…</div> <div class="grid ai-start jc-space-between fw-wrap"> <div class="grid gs4 fw-wrap tags "> <a href="../../questions/tagged/javascript" class="post-tag grid--cell" title="show questions tagged 'javascript'" rel="tag">javascript</a> <a href="../../questions/tagged/search-engine" class="post-tag grid--cell" title="show questions tagged 'search-engine'" rel="tag">search-engine</a> <a href="../../questions/tagged/meteor" class="post-tag grid--cell" title="show questions tagged 'meteor'" rel="tag">meteor</a> <a href="../../questions/tagged/google-search-console" class="post-tag grid--cell" title="show questions tagged 'google-search-console'" rel="tag">google-search-console</a> </div> <div class="started mt0"> <div class="s-user-card s-user-card"> <time class="s-user-card--time" datetime="asked Dec 06 '12 at 23:47">asked Dec 06 '12 at 23:47</time> <a href="../../users/236564/kyle-finley" class="s-avatar s-avatar__32 s-user-card--avatar"> <img class="s-avatar--image" src="../../users/profiles/236564.webp" data-jdenticon-width="32" data-jdenticon-height="32" data-jdenticon-value="Kyle Finley" /> </a> <div class="s-user-card--info"> <a href="../../users/236564/kyle-finley" class="s-user-card--link">Kyle Finley</a> <ul class="s-user-card--awards"> <li class="s-user-card--rep" title="reputation score">11,842</li> <li class="s-award-bling s-award-bling__gold" title="6 gold badges">6</li> <li class="s-award-bling s-award-bling__silver" title="43 silver badges">43</li> <li class="s-award-bling s-award-bling__bronze" title="64 bronze badges">64</li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="s-pagination pager fr"> <a class="s-pagination--item" href="../../questions/tagged/search-engine_page=3" rel="prev" title="Go to page 3">Prev </a> <a class="s-pagination--item" href="../../questions/tagged/search-engine_page=1" rel="" title="Go to page 1">1</a> <a class="s-pagination--item" href="../../questions/tagged/search-engine_page=2" rel="" title="Go to page 2">2</a> <a class="s-pagination--item" href="../../questions/tagged/search-engine_page=3" rel="" title="Go to page 3">3</a> <div class="s-pagination--item s-pagination--item__clear">…</div> <a class="s-pagination--item" href="../../questions/tagged/search-engine_page=99" rel="" title="Go to page 99">99</a> <a class="s-pagination--item" href="../../questions/tagged/search-engine_page=100" rel="" title="Go to page 100">100</a> <a class="s-pagination--item" href="../../questions/tagged/search-engine_page=5" rel="next" title="Go to page 5"> Next</a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <script src="../../static/js/stack-icons.js"></script> <script src="../../static/js/fromnow.js"></script> </body> </html>