search-engine interview questions
Top search-engine frequently asked interview questions
I want to search a single website for pages that do or do not have a canonical URL specified (<link rel='canonical' rel='nofollow' href='http://www.site.com/pageCannonicalUrl.htm' />). Is it possible to do this using Google?
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Is there a way, using Google search or another major search engine, to search for all links to a particular web site on a different web site. For example, could I search for all links to Wikipedia on this site (webapps.stackexchange.com)?
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When I search "@test" in Google, the results contain exact @test phrase (which is right) but in Bing it ignores @. Is there anyway to change Bing's behaviour?
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We all use the Google search engine, and it makes life easier. It's the best at the moment, but that doesn't mean that there won't be rivals or alternatives to Google. Are there any search engines which claim to be better than Google by some features?
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Is there any database or search engine for the comic strip Peanuts? I'd like to be able to search the text of the strip, if possible.
I know such things exist for e.g. Dilbert and Calvin and Hobbes, but I haven't been able to find one for Peanuts.
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As I learnt from this post, Google has no ability to search for special characters. Let's say I want to search for ss!. Are there any other search engines that can achieve this? Please do not propose any programming code search engines since this is a general search.
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When I search on Google and use + to indicate that a word must be on the page I'm searching, why do I get a bunch of results without that word?
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I read about an webapp that you can point at an image that contains text and it will tell you what font was used to create it.
Unfortunately I can't remember what it was called ... does anyone have a link?
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From time to time you find animated gifs especially on social media sites that were probably made from videos e.g. from youtube.
Is there a search engine out there which let's you find the respective videos based on these gifs?
Full disclosure: I asked this question on superuser but it got closed. It was obviously the wrong forum for that question - hope here is the right one
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Is there any solution for finding whole of a video using some of its snapshot or a clip of it?
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Maybe this question is a bit silly, however I always fail to get the right result when I search Google for some particular words like $@( in bash) and other escape words. For instance, when I use bash $@ as the key words, the result contains no highlight signs like $@, which is useless for me;I have also tried bash "$@" or bash \$@, however there seems no improvement.
Can anyone give me some hints?
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This question already has an answer here:
Sometimes when I search for something, there are plenty of links to sites with no content (those who only have the premade templates which the search terms), spammers, and leechers (as in copying content from other sites, like B r o t h e r s o f t who leeches on SoftPedia.com).
How come they have such a high ranking without any original content (furthermore, why are they not simply banned from the results)?
And also, is there some way of filtering them out? Like for example completely exclude a domain from search results?
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Google is the Web Search engine that I use more often, but I would like to know if there are web apps were you can define a list of search engines or webisite you want to retrieve the data for, in a single shot.
The idea is to specify, for example, that I want retrieve the search results from:
- 10 top results from Google
- 10 from Bing
- 10 from Microsoft MSDN Forums
- 10 from Stack Overflow
Do you know something useful?
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