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Search EngineSearch engines are web sites that are designed to allow you to search across the web. Each typically has about 30% of the web cataloged in its database (one reason for large descrepancies in search results). Search engines are a type of infomediary. Popular search engines include: Google, Yahoo, Altavista, and Excite. Other search engines that are emerging include: Overture.com and the Open Directory Project. Search engines rely on web deisgners to submit their pages to the engine, and on a spider that crawls the web to identify new sites.Search engines are a popular source of advertising space. Since people are using search engines to seek out information and go elsewhere on the web, this fits with hypertext advertisements. Emerging search engine advertising programs include Google Adwords and Overture. These are CPC advertising programs that host text advertisements.Search engineA website that catalogs large numbers of websites and allows visitors to search for websites which match criteria entered by the user.Similar MatchesResearch and development (R"D)>Research and development (R"D)>Development of new products and services by a company in order to obtain a competitive advantage. Research portableResearch portableService offered to clients that transmits investment bank research electronically by computers. Local authority searchesLocal authority searchesA local authority search is a check with the local authorities to establish if any new developments are planned in the vicinity of the property you are buying and to check the water drainage systems and other social infrastructure. This can highlight any public works such as a new motorway, waterworks or alterations to road systems, as well as anything else that is has had permission to take place immediately adjacent to the property. The local search will also tell you whether there are any planning restrictions that may affect your intentions to renovate or extend the property. Research and developmentResearch and developmentThe use of resources for the deliberate discovery of new information and ways of doing things, together with the application of that information in inventing new products or processes. Personal searchPersonal searchThis is a manual search by a conveyancer or some other specialist, who manually undertakes the same activities as in a local search. These can be completed in a matter of days rather than weeks or months, though they do end up being up to fifty pounds more expensive. Further SuggestionsMarket researchEthical Investment Research Service Search engine optimization Commodity Research Bureau Research and development limited partnership Quantitative research Direct search market Search engine saturation Qualitative research Research department Search algorithms Search costs Water authority search fee Metasearch engine |
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