search engine

1. 1.

   a computer program that retrieves documents or files or data from a database or from a computer network (especially from the internet)

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Questions about search engine

What does search engine mean?

search engine means "a computer program that retrieves documents or files or data from a database or from a computer network (especially from the internet)".

Is search engine a common word?

search engine is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.