search engine
93
2.9
- noun
- /sɜːrtʃ ˈɛn.dʒɪn/
- Specialized
:
buscador
- You can discover countless resources by entering keywords into a search engine.
- use search engines
- search engine results
- search engine query
Is perplexity a search engine or an answer engine?
- Is perplexity a search engine or an answer engine?
- Originally the worry of scientists, however, focused on search engines as news providers.
- So how can a search engine like Google find your results so quickly?
- I love how DuckDuckGo is the default web search engine.
- My question is, do you see Apple making their own search engine?
- YouTube is the second most powerful, sorry, most utilized website and search engine on the planet.
- Google is the leading search engine in the world, and it was founded in.
- Like Google was not the first search engine, sorry, all to this stuff, right?
Examples
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Today, using a computer and a search engine, that 10-hour experience has been reduced to 10 minutes.
Academic text (2012) -
What process should be used to find relevant studies that are not found using standard search engines?
Academic text (2012) -
Google is the leading search engine in the world, and it was founded in.
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There are many other search engines that support language resources on the web.
Academic text (2002) -
Unfortunately, search engines do not identify all articles that should appropriately be included in a review.
Academic text (2012) -
Other teachers saw information literacy mainly as the ability to use a search engine effectively.
Academic text (2011) -
Although search engines overlap in coverage, not all search engines cover the same content.
Academic text (2004) -
The website's new search engine allows educators to find lesson plans more easily.
Academic text (2002) -
Google quickly got into the game too, by presenting its own AI assisted search engine called Bard.
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When I want to find information quickly, I use a search engine like Google.
Synonyms
3
4.1
A program that looks through computer files or databases to find information
How Useful
- Specialized
93
2.9
- Archaic
10
1.8
50
3.0
- Archaic
60
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a program that locates and retrieves information' is directly and compositionally derived from 'search' (locating information) + 'engine' (a component that performs a task), so the overall concept is predictable from the parts. This noun–noun compound follows a common compounding pattern and has clear equivalents in many languages, making it immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
The noun search engine comes from the idea of putting together search (to look for) and engine (a machine that does a job). Imagine a machine that looks through many pages and brings you answers, and that's why it now means a computer tool that 'finds' information on the internet.