Definitions for search engine
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.5 / 2 votes

1. search enginenoun

   a computer program that retrieves documents or files or data from a database or from a computer network (especially from the internet)

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. search enginenoun

   an application that searches for, and retrieves, data based on some criteria, especially one that searches the Internet for documents containing specified words

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Search engine

   A search engine is a software system designed to carry out web searches. They search the World Wide Web in a systematic way for particular information specified in a textual web search query. The search results are generally presented in a line of results, often referred to as search engine results pages (SERPs). When a user enters a query into a search engine, the engine scans its index of web pages to find those that are relevant to the user's query. The results are then ranked by relevancy and displayed to the user. The information may be a mix of links to web pages, images, videos, infographics, articles, research papers, and other types of files. Some search engines also mine data available in databases or open directories. Unlike web directories and social bookmarking sites, which are maintained by human editors, search engines also maintain real-time information by running an algorithm on a web crawler. Any internet-based content that cannot be indexed and searched by a web search engine falls under the category of deep web.

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1. search engine

   A search engine is a software program or web-based tool that is designed to search an information database or the internet based on keywords entered by the user. It delivers a list of results, known as search engine results pages (SERPs), related to the searcher's query, typically including web pages, images, videos, articles, and other types of files. Examples of popular search engines include Google, Yahoo, and Bing.

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1. Search engine

   A search engine is an information retrieval system designed to help find information stored on a computer system. The search results are usually presented in a list and are commonly called hits. Search engines help to minimize the time required to find information and the amount of information which must be consulted, akin to other techniques for managing information overload. The most public, visible form of a search engine is a Web search engine which searches for information on the World Wide Web.

U.S. National Library of MedicineRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Search Engine

   Software used to locate data or information stored in machine-readable form locally or at a distance such as an INTERNET site.

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How to pronounce search engine?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of search engine in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of search engine in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of search engine in a Sentence

1. Alex Garland:

   That is effectively dramatized and represented within the film because Ava’s sentience comes partly out of the inputs that we’ve put into search engines, there was a loose idea, and this probably does n’t stand up to any scrutiny at all, but for what it’s worth, that if you were to look at everybody’s search engine inputs you ’d get a kind of map and the map would not just tell you what they were thinking about but also how they were thinking because of the strange jumps that people make in their input.

2. The EU:

   Google has used Android as a vehicle to cement the dominance of its search engine. These practices have denied rivals the chance to innovate and compete on the merits.

3. Ping Xiaoli:

   We have estimated that there are about two new players emerging in the search engine market each year, we have been dominating the market over the past two decades.

4. Naren Shaam:

   It's a full-service solution. It's not just a meta search engine that is discovery based.

5. Agustin Reyna:

   So, when consumers start their phone for the first time, they will see a popup window that will say, 'Would you like to install a different browser or search engine?'.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=search engine
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Search_Engine
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_Engine
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=search engine