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search engineIn computing, online program to help users find information on the Internet. Commercial search engines such as Google, Yahoo!, and Lycos comprise databases of documents, Usenet articles, images, and news stories, which can be searched by keying in a key word or phrase. The databases are compiled by a mixture of automated agents (spiders) and webmasters registering their sites. US researchers estimate that about 500 times as much Web site information is hidden from search engines as is open to them. This is partly because many Web sites generate pages on request, filling in standard Web page templates with information from databases. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The "PharmBrowse" button allows users to browse through drugs as grouped by their indication, while the "Data Extractor" is an easy-to-use, high-level data search engine which allows users to construct complex or constrained queries and to select or display search results from the DrugBank databases. To allow users to utilize captured data, the new product also includes WarpSearch, a hardware-assisted data search engine that searches for and finds data within seconds. The top two responses were "users did not want search engines to store any data at all:" (30%); and "users wanted editing permission over the data search engines keep:" (19%). |
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