Definition of "verticals" []

• Plural form of vertical. (noun)
• A set of vertical blinds. (noun)

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• "I wonder if Mr. Harrington also realizes that one of the big topics on the commercial side of web search these days are specialized databases what they call verticals and something that his company has plenty of."
• "In its first few years, Google had developed a number of specialized forms of search, known as verticals, for various corpuses—such as video, images, shopping catalogs, and locations maps."
• "NOTE: Perhaps this is another reason? why using specialty engines aka verticals could do a better job in some situation."