search engine
noun
: computer software used to search data (such as text or a database) for specified information
also
: a site on the Internet that uses such software to locate key words in other sites
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Google has already been paying in the range of $20 billion a year to be the default search engine on the iPhone.
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Mackenzie Sigalos, CNBC, 4 Apr. 2026
Using developer tools, the lawsuit found that opening prompts are always shared, as are any follow-up questions the search engine asks that a user clicks on.
—Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 2 Apr. 2026
Especially for Amazon’s rapidly changing discovery search engine.
—Daniel Fusch, USA Today, 30 Mar. 2026
That strategic pivot opened the door for two other Stanford University graduate students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, to create a search engine called Google.
—Michael Liedtke, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2026
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Mackenzie Sigalos, CNBC, 4 Apr. 2026
Using developer tools, the lawsuit found that opening prompts are always shared, as are any follow-up questions the search engine asks that a user clicks on.
—Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 2 Apr. 2026
Especially for Amazon’s rapidly changing discovery search engine.
—Daniel Fusch, USA Today, 30 Mar. 2026
That strategic pivot opened the door for two other Stanford University graduate students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, to create a search engine called Google.
—Michael Liedtke, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2026
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“Search engine.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/search%20engine. Accessed 8 Apr. 2026.
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