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In World Wide Web the search results are usually presented in a list and are commonly called
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Hits
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In the World Wide Web and search engines, search results are commonly called 'hits' - referring to the number of results matching a query. This terminology emerged from early search engines and represents each result as a 'hit' against the database. 'Records' and 'Ranks' are database terms, while 'Merits' is not standard web search terminology.