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search engine

System to help searching for information

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Subclass of: software

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In computing, a search engine is an information retrieval software system designed to help find information stored on one or more computer systems. Search engines discover, crawl, transform, and store information for retrieval and presentation in response to user queries. The search results are usually presented in a list and are commonly called hits. The most widely used type of search engine is a web search engine, which searches for information on the World Wide Web.

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Wikimedia outline: outline of search engines
Thomson Reuters Business Classification: 667898877
Uses: search algorithm
Has use: information retrieval
Different from: search engine

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AIDb. (2026). search engine (Q19541). Retrieved from https://aidb.si/e/search-engine-Q19541