search engine

Noun
Synonyms: search engine

WordNet 3.0

Noun (1)

  1. a computer program that retrieves documents or files or data from a database or from a computer network (especially from the internet)Synonyms: search engine
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search engine

<web, tool, information science> A remotely accessible program that lets you do keyword searches for information on the Internet. There are several types of search engine; the search may cover titles of documents, URLs, headers, or the full text.

A list of search engines (http://cuiwww.unige.ch/meta-index.html#MISC), Centre Universitaire d'Informatique at the University of Geneva

(1995-11-28)

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