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Web indexing

Web indexing (or "Internet indexing") includes back-of-book-style indexes to individual websites or web documents (these are relatively rare), and the creation of metadata (subject keywords) to provide a more useful vocabulary for Internet search engines.

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early techniques pre-dating the Web
- WAIS, archie
Web spidering
keyword search
Google PageRank algorithm

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