search engine

n.1. A software program that searches a database and gathers and reports information that contains or is related to specified terms.2. A website whose primary function is providing a search engine for gathering and reporting information available on the internet or a portion of the internet.

search engine

n (Computer Science) computing a service provided on the internet enabling users to search for items of interest

search′ en`gine

n. a computer program that searches documents, esp. on the World Wide Web, for a specified word or phrase and provides a list of documents in which this word or phrase is found. [1990–95]

search engine

A device used to find material on the World Wide Web by looking for combinations of words.

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search engine - a computer program that retrieves documents or files or data from a database or from a computer network (especially from the internet)computer program, computer programme, programme, program - (computer science) a sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute; "the program required several hundred lines of code"

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搜索引擎

search engine

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search engine

search engine:

see Internet, theInternet, the,
international computer network linking together thousands of individual networks at military and government agencies, educational institutions, nonprofit organizations, industrial and financial corporations of all sizes, and commercial enterprises (called gateways
..... Click the link for more information. .

search engine

[′sərch ‚en·jən] (computer science) Any software that locates and retrieves information in a database. A server with a stored index of Web pages that is capable of returning lists of pages that match keyword queries.

search engine

Computing a service provided on the internet enabling users to search for items of interest

search engine

(World-Wide Web, tool, information science)A remotelyaccessible program that lets you do keyword searches forinformation on the Internet. There are several types ofsearch engine; the search may cover titles of documents,URLs, headers, or the full text.

A list of search engines, CentreUniversitaire d'Informatique at the University of Geneva

search engine

Software that looks for data that match the criteria in a query. Although search engines have been around for decades, they were brought to the forefront after the Web exploded onto the scene. Search engines differ in the way they find and index the content on the Web and the way they search those indexes to locate matches.

Although a search engine is technically the software and algorithms used to perform a search, the term has become synonymous with the complete service, such as the Google, Yahoo! and Bing search engines. See spider, SERP, Web search engines, vertical search engine, organic search results, search engine optimization and social search engine.

search engine

Related to search engine: Meta search engine, Google search engine

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noun 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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