search engine

Noun
  1. A computer program that retrieves documents or files or data from a database or from a computer network (especially from the internet) (synset 106590830)
    is a type of: computer program, computer programme, program, programme - (computer science) a sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute
    specific instances:
    • 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
    • yahoo - a widely used search engine for the web that finds information, news, images, products, finance
    • ask jeeves - a widely used search engine accepting plain English questions or phrases or terms

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