Used in a Sentence

indexing

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for indexing.

Editorial note

Targeting the companies indexing the information is probably a more tractable problem then tracking down and eliminating all the sources.

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Quick take

A system used to assign indexes.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of indexing gathered in one view.

noun

A system used to assign indexes.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for indexing.

noun

A system used to assign indexes.

Example sentences

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Targeting the companies indexing the information is probably a more tractable problem then tracking down and eliminating all the sources.

2

What may -or may not- happen is that the web indexing business become less relevant that is today.

3

My setup is on OneNote, which does a really great job of indexing everything you throw into it.

4

There's only a handful of really influential companies indexing this data compared to the numbers that produce and distribute it.

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From what we know the NSA has global coverage with google-style indexing[1] since at least 2012, possibly earlier.

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The FUD and comparaison with China still bother me, but in the end they are right cause yeah indexing engine should be agnostic...

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Another thing that still amazes me is the almost realtime indexing of web.

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Most of the aligners use some kind of FM-index for indexing the genome.

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Regarding ajax, I've heard Google was indexing high profile sites, not _every_ site, due to the cost of running JavaScript.

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Unless you have some compelling reason to have the blobs in the database, like indexing them, you'd be better off keeping them somewhere else.

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This is both bad on the basis that Google's reliability depends on indexing all it can (but respecting the robots.txt no indexing rules) and to harm that reliability for reason, even good ones, could mean that what the general public knows is being actively censored.

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This is like targeting library card catalogs for indexing microfiche.

Quote examples

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Google being good at indexing "all the things" - also old news.

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[1]: Namely "adaptive radix trees" as described in “The adaptive radix tree: Artful indexing for main-memory databases” by V.

3

And my guess is: the local newspapers are a worse political target than evil large western company they can blame all their ills on:) "Targeting the companies indexing the information is probably a more tractable problem then tracking down and eliminating all the sources." I don't buy this.

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The court did require the newspaper to update the published information and use “robots.txt” and “metatags” to prevent the indexing of the content by Google due to the particularly serious nature of the crime and the severe personal consequences for Gloria.

Proper noun examples

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Indexing!= SEO A better test is to insert mentions to another site for relevant keywords.

2

Indexing into a list of them wouldn't be constant time, for example.

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Indexing with unsigned integers certainly has its pitfalls: while (idx >= 0) { foo(arr[idx]); idx--; } But this is outweighed by the enormous and under-appreciated dangers of signed arithmetic!

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use indexing in a sentence?

Targeting the companies indexing the information is probably a more tractable problem then tracking down and eliminating all the sources.

What does indexing mean?

A system used to assign indexes.

What part of speech is indexing?

indexing is commonly used as noun.