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A popular Apple browser.

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Browse Related Terms: Browser, Firefox, Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer, Google Toolbar for Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Microsoft, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Toolbar, Web browser

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Scientist who pioneered the information retrieval field.

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- A Theory of Indexing - 1975 book by Gerard Salton
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Browse Related Terms: Google Base, Google OneBox, Information Retrieval, USENET, Vertical Search, YouTube

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Scalability indicates the capability of a system to increase total throughput under an increased load when resources (typically hardware) are added.
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Browse Related Terms: intranet, IP Address, More like this, Network Attached Storage, Storage Area Network (SAN)

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A group of related URIs that is used to define the range of a search request.
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Browse Related Terms: Offensive content filter, Scope field, Scope Search, Similarity searching

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A scope field contains hierarchically structured content. It enables schema flexibility and the ability to conserve hierarchical relationships rather than flattening the data as is often required by meta-data engines.
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Browse Related Terms: Offensive content filter, scope, Scope Search, Similarity searching

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Scope SearchÂ enables search in hierarchical content structures without a need to know the schema in advance.
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Browse Related Terms: Offensive content filter, scope, Scope field, Similarity searching

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Designed to 'scrape' search-engine results pages or other sources of content (often without permission) to create content for a website. Scraper sites are generally full of advertising or redirect the user to other sites.
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Browse Related Terms: 301, 302, Clickthrough, Hijacking, .htaccess, Meta Refresh, Redirect

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Intrusive software and programs which usually target ads, violate privacy, and are often installed without the computer owner knowing what the software does.

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Browse Related Terms: Behavioral Targeting, Demographics, Geo-Targeting, Insertion Order (I/O), Reach, RSS, Spyware, Syndication, Target Audience, trademark, Universe

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A program that processes queries, searches the index, returns the search results, and retrieves the source documents for collections in an enterprise search system.
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Browse Related Terms: Access Control List (ACL), application programming interface (API), Collection, content, Content aggregation, Crawler, data source, data source type, discoverer, ETL-type tools, external data source

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A buffer that holds the data and results of previous search requests.
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Browse Related Terms: Document summary, False positives, Impression logging, Query and result processing, Result set, search results, Zero results

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A search cluster is a group of search nodes (row/column matrix) that shares the same index schema (index profile)
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Browse Related Terms: Content routing, Index profile, Rows and columns, Unsupervised clustering

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A program that accepts a search request and returns a list of documents to the user.
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Browse Related Terms: access control list, administrative role, enterprise search administrator, User agent, User interface (UI)

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The software that searches an index and returns matches. Search engine is often used synonymously with spider and index, although these are separate components that work with the engine.
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a web site that offers its visitors the ability to search the content of numerous web pages on the Internet. Search engines periodically explore all the pages of a website and add the text on those pages into a large database that users can then search. With a search engine, publishing web pages that incorporate relevant key phrases, prominently positioned in particular ways, is critical. Contrast this with directories, which don't siphon content out of the HTML of a site's constituent pages, but instead are comprised solely of site names and descriptions written or edited by human reviewers.
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A tool or device used to find relevant information. Search engines consist of a spider, index, relevancy algorithms and search results.
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A server or a collection of servers dedicated to indexing internet web pages, storing the results and returning lists of pages which match particular queries. The indexes are normally generated using spiders. The term Search Engine is also often used to describe both directories and search engines.
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Browse Related Terms: Algorithm, Directory, Hilltop, Meta Search Engine, Natural Language Processing, Positioning, Positioning Technique, Relevancy Algorithm, Reputation Management

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strategies and tactics undertaken to increase the amount and quality of leads generated by the search engines.
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Browse Related Terms: copyright, SEM, The Tragedy of the Commons, Wiki, Wikipedia

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strategies and tactics undertaken to influence the rankings of web pages in the search engines. Search Engine Optimisation involves the 3 steps of SEO including technical optimisation, content optimisation and link buidling.
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Browse Related Terms: Emphasis, Hidden Text - SEO Spam Tactic, junk pages, Keyword Density, Keyword Stuffing, Pagejacking, SEO Copywriting, Siphoning, Unethical SEO

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a page of search results delivered by a search engine.
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Browse Related Terms: Meta Search, Miserable Failure, Negative SEO, Results, SERP, SERPs

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Many search engines store user search history information. This data can be used for better ad targeting or to make old information more findable. Search engines may also determine what a document is about and how much they trust a domain based on aggregate usage data. Many brand related search queries is a strong signal of quality.
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Browse Related Terms: Manual Review, Organic Search Results, Relevancy, TrustRank, Yahoo!, Yahoo! Directory

A concept usedÂ in order to identify the set of search attributes common for a given search application. This includes global filter constraints (e.g. collection), query processing parameters (such as linguistics) and result handling parameters (such as Navigation settings).
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Browse Related Terms: Contextual Insight, Deep navigators, Dynamic drill-down, Metadata, Navigation, Navigators, Result-side (shallow) navigators, Results-based binning, Results clustering, Results transformation

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A list of documents that match the search request.
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Browse Related Terms: Document summary, False positives, Impression logging, Query and result processing, Result set, search cache, Zero results

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Scope field - permalink - collapse

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