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I'm building a search engine for businesses and I'm wondering if there is a single word for 'how you're found'.

The context is that I need a word to describe a group of properties that determine when the business will show in the search results. The best I came up with is 'Exposure' but my girlfriend thinks its too abstracted.

Any help would be super!

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    Do you mean: "How do people normally find you?", like with Yellow Pages, Internet etc.?
    – nico
    May 2, 2011 at 6:55
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    Your visibility is determined by ... ?
    – Alex K.
    May 7, 2014 at 13:19

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Businesses might refer to their position in search results as their rank, hence PageRank.

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  • hmm close, I don't think 'rank' is exactly the right word though in the context I have.
    – Lango
    May 2, 2011 at 8:26
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try findability and searchability

The quality of a particular object being locatable.

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Originally, these were metadata that you would write in the html and could be indexed by search engines but Google, for example, no longer uses this data.

You could also call these terms search keys or identifiers.

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  • True, though the businesses we are targeting won't know what metadata means. I do like identifiers though.
    – Lango
    May 2, 2011 at 8:26
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How about "keywords"?

Which keywords best describe the product/service your business is offering?

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My guess is you want a phrase that is less technical-sounding. How about "tags" or "labels"?

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Perhaps: Locator(s); Locatability?

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Is "sources" the kind of thing you are after? Such as organic search, PPC ads, inbouind links from other sites...

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I have developed several different types of search engines for my company and I use search weighting.

Where different categories, words, tags, whatever may have a certain weight that figures into the order of the information that the user would see on the site.

Weighting can be done by user demographics, content related, using a combination (limitless combinations).

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Consider "criteria."

criterion, pl. criteria: a standard on which a judgment or decision can be based.

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