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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
(Electronics & Computer Science / Computer Science) Computing a service provided on the Internet enabling users to search for items of interest
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Noun1.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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search engine محرك البحث vyhledávací program søgemaskine Suchmaschine μηχανή αναζήτησης motor de búsqueda hakukone moteur de recherche pretraživač motore di ricerca 検索エンジン 검색 엔진 zoekprogramma søkemotor wyszukiwarka mecanismo de pesquisa, motor de pesquisa поисковая система sökmotor กลไกการหาข้อมูลบนอินเตอร์เนต arama motoru công cụ tìm kiếm 搜索引擎


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