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Bettina Wulff

The centrepiece of the associated lawsuit is Google's autocomplete feature, because the search engine would suggest terms such as "escort" and "prostitute" when searching for Wulff's name.

Bielefeld University

It works with commercial system suppliers to meet the needs of academic libraries—collaborations that have resulted in developments such as BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine), by which metadata is collected from scientific repository servers and indexed, along with data from selected web sites and data collections, using the Solr framework.

Bookmarklet

Query a search engine or online encyclopedia with highlighted text or by a dialog box

DVDVideoSoft

DVDVideoSoft is criticized for toolbar and Web search engine installation (in some versions of Free Studio and DVDVideoSoft applications).

ESobi

eSobi is a shareware application and the full version of eSobi consists of four functions: (1) an RSS reader, (2) a podcast receiver, (3) a meta-search engine, and (4) a data library.

It started out as the very first in the market to combine an RSS reader, a meta-search engine, and a scrapbook all in one application, aiming to ease information overload of the Web.

Forestle

Forestle was an ecologically inspired search engine created by Christian Kroll, Wittenberg, Germany, in 2008.

Free YouTube to MP3 Converter

The developer of the application is criticized for toolbar and Web search engine installation.

Golis Telecom Somalia

XOGMAAL enables enquiring, emailing through the mobile, and searching the largest online encyclopedias and dictionaries as well as search engines such as Google.

Google hacking

Google hacking involves using advanced operators in the Google search engine to locate specific strings of text within search results.

LGTE

Lucene Geographic and Temporal (LGTE) is an information retrieval tool developed at Technical University of Lisbon which can be used as a search engine or as evaluation system for information retrieval techniques for research purposes.

Para Fuera

The film was conceptualized when Dr. Richard Bing learned of Microsoft's new search engine Bing, and wrote a letter to Microsoft about his life and upcoming 100th birthday.

Rasmus Refer

Rasmus Refer (born January 18, 1970) is a Danish entrepreneur and business owner best known for founding the B2B search engine Masterseek.

Schnitzelmitkartoffelsalat

The phrase was chosen for being arbitrary and having not appeared in the Google index up to that point.

Skypicker

Skypicker is a flight search engine that allows users to find and to book plane tickets for the cheapest prices.

Surf Canyon

In the case of the extension, those searches can be on Google, Yahoo!, Bing, and Craigslist.

Thumbshot

Since then, thumbshots have been used in numerous different applications, ranging from Windows Explorer and a desktop search engine like Copernic to Internet search engines and web directories which provide a thumbshot preview of a webpage alongside search results.

Yahoo! Internet Life

Yahoo! Internet Life was a monthly magazine published by Ziff Davis, which licensed the name from Yahoo!, the well-known web portal and search engine website.

Zettair

Zettair is a compact text search engine for indexing and search of HTML (or TREC) collections.


see also

American National Corpus

By using a freely provided transduction tool, the corpus and user-chosen annotations is provided in multiple formats, including the XML format conformant to the XML Corpus Encoding Standard (XCES) (usable with the British National Corpus's XAIRA search engine), a UIMA-compliant format, and formats suitable for input to a wide variety of concordance software.

Ben Behrouzi

In Q4 of 2006 Behrouzi phased out of his operational duties at Reply.com and in 2007 founded his next business venture DotNext, a privately held performance based marketing company offering search engine marketing, social media branding and search engine optimization services under independent brands including LeapFish and iHype.com.

Digital Dictionary of Buddhism

In 2001, with the help of Humanities Computing XML specialist Michael Beddow, the dictionaries were placed on the web in XML format with a search engine.

Eckhard Pfeiffer

Pfeiffer was one of the founders of Accoona, an Internet search engine provider, and has been its Chairman since December 2004.

Eurogene

The search engine uses a query language similar to PubMed.

Federated search

One federated search engine that has begun to address this issue is WorldWideScience, hosted by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical Information.

François Bourdoncle

François Bourdoncle (born 1964) is founder and Chief Strategist of the search engine company Exalead.

Gianluigi Cavallo

The first of them, Live on Line, published in 2000, had also a free distribution by the search engine Lycos.

Google book

Google Books, a Web-based search engine for digitised paper books

History of OS X

Mountain Lion also includes more Chinese features including support for Baidu as an option for Safari search engine, QQ, 163.com and 126.com services for Mail, Contacts and Calendar, Youku, Tudou and Sina Weibo are integrated into share sheets.

Human flesh search engine

Caught in the Web is a film by Chen Kaige which explores fictional instances of use of the human flesh search engine.

IFACnet

IFACnet, the KnowledgeNet for Professional Accountants, is the global, multilingual search engine developed by the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) and its members to provide professional accountants worldwide with one-stop access to good practice guidance, articles, management tools and other resources.

Istvan Bakx

Manager Hein Vanhaezebrouck was searching for a left-footed attacker and had typed in those words at search engine Google.

Keyword

Index term, a term used as a keyword to retrieve documents in an information system such as a catalog or a search engine

Koders

In addition to their web-based search engine, Koders provided a plug-in for the IDE Eclipse and an add-in for Microsoft Visual Studio.

Kogel mogel

The company and search engine name Google, was given as a play on the spelling of the Googol number.

Le Soir

The paper gained some notoriety on the internet after it successfully sued the search-engine Google for copyright infringement.

Lot18

It was launched in October 2010 by Philip J. K. James, who previously founded Snooth, a social networking website, and Kevin Fortuna, the former CEO of Quigo, a search-engine marketing company that was acquired by AOL in December 2007.

McGill University School of Computer Science

The first Internet Search Engine, Archie search engine, was written in 1990 by three McGill computer science students: Alan Emtage, Bill Heelan, and J. Peter Deutsch.

Monier

Louis Monier (born 1956), founder of Internet search engine AltaVista

Organization of Search Engine Optimization Professionals

The Organization of Search Engine Optimization Professionals (seopros), is non-profit organization of search engine marketers founded in April, 2001.

Participatory media

In the words of David Sifry, the founder of Technorati, a search engine for blogs, one-to-many “lectures” (i.e., from media companies to their audiences) are transformed into “conversations” among “the people formerly known as the audience”.

Perfect 10, Inc. v. Amazon.com, Inc.

, 508 F.3d 1146 (9th Cir. 2007) was a case in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit involving Perfect 10, Inc., Amazon.com, Inc. and Google, Inc. The court held that Google's framing and hyperlinking as part of an image search engine constituted a fair use of Perfect 10's images because the use was highly transformative, overturning most of the district court's decision.

Pipilika

It is the country's first search engine developed by the computer engineering students of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh.

Register.com

In January 2010, the Chinese search engine Baidu sued Register.com for gross negligence after an employee allegedly allowed a third party to access to Baidu's account despite them failing to pass basic security verification, allowing their website to be hijacked by the Iranian Cyber Army.

SERP

Search engine results page, the listing of web pages returned by a search engine in response to a keyword query

Sunil Hirani

Hirani is also the founding investor in SeatGeek, the largest online search engine for sports, concert and theater tickets.

Surf Canyon

In 2010, the Surf Canyon website won the About.com Reader's Choice Award for Best Search Engine with 48% of the vote, compared to Google's 34% second-place.

The Google Story

It is the story of Google's founders; Sergey Brin and Larry Page, and starts with how they dropped out of graduate school at Stanford University before creating the search engine.

VConnect

VConnect is a local search engine and an information service provider company located at Surulere, Lagos, Nigeria.

Web search engine

While the name of the search engine "Archie" was not a reference to the Archie comic book series, "Veronica" and "Jughead" are characters in the series, thus referencing their predecessor.