- The collecting, parsing, and storing of data to facilitate fast and accurate information retrieval in search engines. Index design incorporates interdisciplinary concepts from computer science, informatics, mathematics, linguistics, and cognitive psychology. Popular search engines focus on the full-text indexing of online, natural language documents. Media types such as video, audio, and graphics are also searchable. ← Wikipedia
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