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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 program that searches documents for specified keywords and returns a list of the documents where the keywords were found. Documents can refer to web pages, file documents like PDF...

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Is it possible to notify search engines about non-official restaurant websites competing with the real site?

What can be done about fake websites popping up pretending to be the real one? It is specific to restaurants where there are services provided by food delivery services such as in the UK; Just-eat and a few others. Just-eat is a food portal…
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Easiest way of submitting your website to various search engines

A few months ago I saw a video where someone explained a website where when you submit your link, it would be submitted to all mayor search engines. It looked like a pretty nice website. I thought I would remember it but as always I forget both what…
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DMCA service on Bing search engine

Does Bing offer a similar service to the one Google search engine offers below? https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/dmca-notice?hl=en Thanks.
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Preventing appearance of certain directories/pages in google search results

I have my personal homepage, and I want the main page itself to appear in search results. But I do not want a certain directory and its subdirectories to appear in google search results. How do I do this?
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Why is bingbot / msnbot appending %2Findex.php to my urls?

My logs are showing bingbot / msnbot appending %2Findex.php to some of my urls. Any idea why? This makes them invalid and if any users were redirected with it, it would not take them to the correct page. I've poked around a bit and noticed that…
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What is the Google link equivalent in Yahoo and Bing?

The link: directive in Google will find all pages which link to a given site. E.g. putting this in Google: link:stackexchange.com returns a bunch of sites linking to Stack Exchange. Is there an equivalent directive in Bing and/or Yahoo?
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How do spiders find your website in the first place?

This is just a question of curiosity. Let's say I register for a new web domain and purchase a hosting account. I set up a website, and soon search index bots are visiting the site to learn more about it. How did those bots know how to find the site…
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How do I login to Sphider?

Has anyone else here used Sphider? I am able to install everything (exactly as instructed here)and change the password, but unable to login at the login screen. Whenever I login, it just refreshes the page, whether the credentials are correct or…
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What russian search engine or social network service is this?

The above logo of a search engine is supposedly the top in russia. I would like to know more about the company so I can do SEO for it. When I google for "Russia top search engine" I only get Yandex. Does anyone know what search engine is it? PS: I…
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Search engine setting for displaying only for desktop/laptop users

Is there a way to instruct search engines (especially Google Search) that a website is meant to be accessed only on desktop/laptop? One of my websites is not displaying properly on smartphones but displaying okay on desktops/laptops.
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How to make search engines display only the title of a web page on their search results?

I want to make search engines display only the title of my web page on their search results. And I don't want to show any descriptions and any texts of my page on the search results. For example, this site is displayed like: Stack Overflow A…
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Unique search engine results

Possible Duplicate: What are the most important things I need to do to encourage Google Sitelinks? How do i get those kind of result? With Categories below the main result. What is it called. i want to do as the picture. thanks in advance!
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Is having a "noindex" page that redirects to a "indexable" page bad for SEO?

I am building a "dynamic pages" system. I have a /page?slug=some-slug pattern. This page checks a database with the slug and if it finds some entry it will redirect with 301 to the found real URL that can be anything within same domain, example…
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How to determine what data visualisation tools are being used on a website

I help maintain a website that is housed in the Squiz Matrix cms. Because we have several Tableau public and MS Power BI reports embedded throughout the website, soon the Power BI reports will be migrated to another data centre server so the…
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