What does "search engine" mean?

An application that searches for, and retrieves, data based on some criteria, especially one that searches the Internet for documents containing specified words.

What is a synonym for "search engine"?

Common synonyms include: baidu, elasticsearch.

Search engine

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun

1
An application that searches for, and retrieves, data based on some criteria, especially one that searches the Internet for documents containing specified words.
"The MEMEX search engine with Textract software has been proved able to search the 1,251,521 records of the Pre-1920 Catalogue in four minutes."
2
a computer program that retrieves documents or files or data from a database or from a computer network (especially from the internet) wordnet

Verb

1
Alternative form of search-engine. alt-of, alternative

Synonyms

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baidu elasticsearch

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"The MEMEX search engine with Textract software has been proved able to search the 1,251,521 records of the Pre-1920 Catalogue in four minutes."

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