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What is a Search Engine?

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Friday September 11, 2009
Many computer users aren't totally sure

what a search engine is

. Or what one does. Or how many there are. Let us clear that up for you.

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Show Notes

- A "

search engine

" is a software program that retrieves information from a database.

- A search engine is also software that retrieves information from a network, like the Internet.

- Many search engines "mine" data that is contained in databases, publications, and the like.

- Search engines catalogue and index billions of Web pages and then provide possible answers to the search query.

- A search engine is not a browser.

- A search engine is not a Web page or a Web site.

- There are search engines that search only specific Web sites or a single site.

- Some search engines include:


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