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Veronica was a search engine system for the Gopher protocol, released in November 1992 [1] by Steven Foster and Fred Barrie at the University of Nevada, Reno. [2]During its existence, Veronica was a constantly updated database of the names of almost every menu item on thousands of Gopher servers.
Google Search (also known simply as Google or Google.com) is a search engine operated by Google. It allows users to search for information on the Internet by entering keywords or phrases. Google Search uses algorithms to analyze and rank websites based on their relevance to the search query. It is the most popular search engine worldwide.
Trigram search is a method of searching for text when the exact syntax or spelling of the target object is not precisely known [1] or when queries may be regular expressions. [2] It finds objects which match the maximum number of three consecutive character strings (i.e. trigrams) in the entered search terms, which are generally near matches. [3]
The Parsons code, formally named the Parsons code for melodic contours, is a simple notation used to identify a piece of music through melodic motion – movements of the pitch up and down. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Denys Parsons (father of Alan Parsons [ 3 ] ) developed this system for his 1975 book The Directory of Tunes and Musical Themes .
Archie first appeared in 1986, while Emtage was the systems manager at the McGill University School of Computer Science.His predecessor had attempted to persuade the institution to connect to the Internet, but due to the expensive cost — roughly $35,000 per year for a sluggish link to Boston — it had been challenging to persuade the appropriate parties that the investment was worthwhile.
A web query or web search query is a query that a user enters into a web search engine to satisfy their information needs.Web search queries are distinctive in that they are often plain text and boolean search directives are rarely used.
A numeric character reference refers to a character by its Universal Character Set/Unicode code point, and a character entity reference refers to a character by a predefined name. A numeric character reference uses the format &#nnnn; or &#xhhhh; where nnnn is the code point in decimal form, and hhhh is the code point in hexadecimal form.
Federated search came about to meet the need of searching multiple disparate content sources with one query. This allows a user to search multiple databases at once in real time, arrange the results from the various databases into a useful form and then present the results to the user.