search engine
noun
: 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
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Its consumers benefit from American search engines and foreign fuels.
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Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg via Getty Images Nearly a year ago, U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta ruled that Google had acted illegally to maintain a monopoly on the search engine market.
—Jaclyn Diaz, NPR, 21 Apr. 2025
His case was the first story the Clean Slate committee decided to de-index fully, so that the story will no longer appear in search engine queries for his name.
—Sacbee.com, 20 Apr. 2025
Insights are derived from social listening, search engine trends and qualitative research.
—Peter High, Forbes.com, 18 Apr. 2025
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Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg via Getty Images Nearly a year ago, U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta ruled that Google had acted illegally to maintain a monopoly on the search engine market.
—Jaclyn Diaz, NPR, 21 Apr. 2025
His case was the first story the Clean Slate committee decided to de-index fully, so that the story will no longer appear in search engine queries for his name.
—Sacbee.com, 20 Apr. 2025
Insights are derived from social listening, search engine trends and qualitative research.
—Peter High, Forbes.com, 18 Apr. 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 24 Apr. 2025.
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