Business / Search Engine Optimization (SEO) / Index: Collection of data used as bank to search through to find a match to a user fed query. The larger search engines have billions of documents in their catalogs. When search engines search they search via reverse indexes by words and return results based on matching relevancy vectors. Stemming and semantic analysis allow search engines to return near matches. Index may also refer to the root of a folder on a web server.
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Index Adjective Synonyms: mark, sign, clue, token, hint, pointer, indicator, indication, guide
Index Noun Synonyms: guide, directory, list, listing, table of contents, catalogue, key, thesaurus
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Business / Search Engine Optimization (SEO) / Indexed Pages: The pages on a site which have been indexed. MORE
Business / Search Engine Optimization (SEO) / Reverse Index: An index of keywords which stores records of matching documents that contain those keywords. MORE
Business / Finance / Buying The Index: Purchasing the stocks in the S&P 500 in the same proportion as the index to achieve the same return. MORE