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Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code-name Project Ocean) [1] is a service from Google that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database. [2]
A search engine lists web pages on the Internet.This facilitates research by offering an immediate variety of applicable options. Possibly useful items on the results list include the source material or the electronic tools that a web site can provide, such as a dictionary, but the list itself, as a whole, can also indicate important information.
Microsoft Academic gained prominence because it profiled authors, organizations, keywords, and journals [4] and made the dataset available as open data, in contrast to Google Scholar. The search engine indexed over 260 million publications, [5] 88 million of which are journal articles. [5]
Scirus was a comprehensive science-specific search engine, first launched in 2001. [1] Like CiteSeerX and Google Scholar, it was focused on scientific information.Unlike CiteSeerX, Scirus was not only for computer sciences and IT and not all of the results included full text.
Robots.txt is a well known file for search engine optimization and protection against Google dorking. It involves the use of robots.txt to disallow everything or specific endpoints (hackers can still search robots.txt for endpoints) which prevents Google bots from crawling sensitive endpoints such as admin panels.
Microsoft Academic Search was a research project and academic search engine retired in 2012. It relaunched in 2016 as Microsoft Academic , which in turn was shut down in 2022. The content of the latter was allegedly incorporated into The Lens .
Google Images (previously Google Image Search) is a search engine owned by Google that allows users to search the World Wide Web for images. [1] It was introduced on July 12, 2001, due to a demand for pictures of the green Versace dress of Jennifer Lopez worn in February 2000.
In computing, a search engine is an information retrieval software system designed to help find information stored on one or more computer systems.Search engines discover, crawl, transform, and store information for retrieval and presentation in response to user queries.