English > search engine: 1 sense > noun 1, communication| Meaning | 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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| Instances | Ask Jeeves | A widely used search engine accepting plain English questions or phrases or terms |
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| 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 |
| Broader | program, programme, computer program, computer programme | (computer science) a sequence / sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute |
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| Spanish | buscador, motor de búsqueda |
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| Catalan | cercador, motor de cerca |
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