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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The travel search engine looked at flight searches from January 2025 to June 2025 compared to searches from the same period in 2024.
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Lydia Price, Travel + Leisure, 18 Dec. 2025
Metaintro is a job-search engine with 2 million active users that runs on open-source data, processing more than 600 million jobs in real time.
—Sydney Lake, Fortune, 16 Dec. 2025
The investment firm reiterated its buy rating on the Google search engine parent.
—Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 12 Dec. 2025
What began as a bold idea has grown into a next-generation information and analytics platform that serves as part search engine, part verification hub, and part cognitive technology lab.
—William Jones, USA Today, 12 Dec. 2025
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Lydia Price, Travel + Leisure, 18 Dec. 2025
Metaintro is a job-search engine with 2 million active users that runs on open-source data, processing more than 600 million jobs in real time.
—Sydney Lake, Fortune, 16 Dec. 2025
The investment firm reiterated its buy rating on the Google search engine parent.
—Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 12 Dec. 2025
What began as a bold idea has grown into a next-generation information and analytics platform that serves as part search engine, part verification hub, and part cognitive technology lab.
—William Jones, USA Today, 12 Dec. 2025
See All Example Sentences for search engine
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“Search engine.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/search%20engine. Accessed 21 Dec. 2025.
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