Definitions of search engine
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a computer program that retrieves documents or files or data from a database or from a computer network (especially from the internet)
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examples:
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Google
a widely used search engine that uses text-matching techniques to find web pages that are important and relevant to a user's search
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Yahoo
a widely used search engine for the web that finds information, news, images, products, finance
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Ask Jeeves
a widely used search engine accepting plain English questions or phrases or terms
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type of:
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computer program, computer programme, program, programme
(computer science) a sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute
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Google
Pronunciation
US
/ˌsərtʃ ˈɛndʒən/
UK
/sətʃ ˈɛndʒɪn/
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