Search is used to look through a body of data, usually text, to find particular results that match some set of criteria.
Search is used to look through a body of data, usually text, to find particular results that match some set of criteria.
Questions tagged [search]
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How to grep (or find) on cPanel?
How can I search for a specific string (function name or a variable name) in my files which are in various directories under cPanel file manager?
I have been using a library directory and functions on that directory are used in various apps and…
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Ask Google to remove thousands of pages from its index after cleaning up from hacked site
I've had my website hacked. I have cleaned it and searched google site:example.com and made a list of all the results. Removed the actual links that are OK and made a list of the ones in the format of example.com/ad0-b1fermarte54eb17chb-1244425.…
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Need to add 30K new pages to a 10K page website - troubles ahead? (SEO)
We have a situation with a website where we plan to add a huge amount of new pages. The domain is over 10 years old, approximately 10 thousand indexed pages, and the planned addition is approx. 30K new pages.
Any idea how we should go about it? Must…
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How can I get Google to index my PDF documents?
We are having troubles getting Google to index the PDF files in our site. There are about 50 PDF and range in size for 20 KB to a little under two megs. They are not protected, can be read anonymously, and inside of PDF Reader, you can search the…
Jim Biddison
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Is Google a reliable document search engine?
I have a site with PDFs and Word documents that I know have been indexed by Google because they appear in search results with filetype:pdf (or doc), and if I search for some very specific terms with quotation marks, they appear as well. But they…
Miriam Schwab
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making a site searchable via Chrome search bar
I use Google Chrome. When I want to search Wikipedia, I type www.wikipedia.org into the search bar and then press tab. The screen looks like this:
If I type some search words, it uses the actual search functionality of Wikipedia, instead of just…
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Is it a bad idea to use Google Search on your website?
If you have a web application with lots of records, is it a bad idea to use Google Search on your website? Instead of writing a search function and dealing with performance issue, you 'outsource' the search feature to Google.
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Hide a Subdomain from Google/Search Engine SEO Result?
I have a subomain which I do not want to be listed in any search engine result. Let say I have:
http://www.example.com
http://child.example.com
How can I hide all URLs of child.example.com domain which are currently showing in the search engine…
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Is the W3 standard a major factor when google decides SERP position?
I have a dynamic php website which index only has around 800 errors according to the w3 validator online.
I have tried checking major websites like ebay, stackoverflow and others also, all with around 400 errors.
So my first thought is, what good is…
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What is a best canonical URL for a search result page?
I have read a Google guideline About rel="canonical" and I have known that
A canonical page is the preferred version of a set of pages with
highly similar content.
I have a search page which URL is appended by search keywords, for example, when…
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Titles in Google results contain spammy prefixes
Over the past couple of weeks, we've noticed that the search results from Google for some of our drupal-powered sites are having their page titles hijacked somehow. An example would be:
free streaming porn - [Actual page title]
There are other…
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Finally is it bad to mention words around sex in your page?
Among other I run a humor site, developed in php. I have a custom search built where people search for everything under the sun.
I have noticed that it helps me to have a "Latest searches section" where I list the latest searches performed.
As you…
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Does the "canonical name" in DNS make any difference to search engines?
Some of our sites are setup with an "a record" to an IP address and some are setup as a cname of a server that then has an "a name" to the same server IP. I want it to be consistent.
Which is the best way?
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Free search tool for static website
I am looking for a free search tool for a website hosting html documentation files. the tool should display the results as listings of page title and few lines of text from that page. It should also work on the site being hosted locally on LAN so it…
aeonsleo
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Best approach to have Google index content primarily generated by Javascript
I'm developing an app where customers can drop in a Javascript tag onto their website, and it will generate content. What is the best approach to have Google index this content and associate it with the site's URL.
I know that Google doesn't…
Sean Coleman