search engine

noun

Definition of search engine

: computer software used to search data (such as text or a database) for specified information also : a site on the World Wide Web that uses such software to locate key words in other sites

Examples of search engine in a Sentence

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And completely unbeknownst to us, last week, a large consumer search engine picked that up. — Recode Staff, Recode, "Full transcript: Matt Cutts of the U.S. Digital Service on Recode Decode," 12 July 2018 Google Doodles are a popular feature on the company’s search engine. — Don Reisinger, Fortune, "Google Doodle Highlights Recipes Ahead of Fourth of July," 3 July 2018 According to Emojipedia, a search engine for emojis, Google is rolling out an update to Android users to replace the handgun emoji with a water gun. — USA TODAY, "Google is replacing its gun emoji with a water pistol," 25 Apr. 2018 Although Amazon’s product recommendations and search engines now benefit from some of its AI advances, other, more visible efforts clearly need more work. — Bloomberg.com, "Amazon’s Other Jeff Steps Into the Spotlight," 21 Apr. 2018 While hardly the seeds of the next Google, the business inspired Smith to launch a site called Localprofit.com, a search engine for wholesale shoppers that, at its peak in 2006, netted him $72,000 in a single month. — James Vlahos, GQ, "The Mystery of the Killer Vacation," 18 Apr. 2018 Labeling fake news as such, on a social network or search engine, may do little to deter it as well. — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, "The Grim Conclusions of the Largest-Ever Study of Fake News," 8 Mar. 2018 Pew's data shows that many Web users over age 65 go online on a daily basis, and more than half use social media (such as Facebook) as well as e-mail and search engines. — Jan Burns, Houston Chronicle, "More seniors embracing technology," 12 Feb. 2018 Instead of typing work at home into a search engine, try phrases like this is a work-from-home position to dramatically increase the quality of results. — Tracy Saelinger, Redbook, "The Ultimate Guide to Remote Jobs," 17 Nov. 2015

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