search engine en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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Meanings
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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.
1985, Geoffrey Neate, Memex: evaluation of a search engine, →OCLC, page 41:If I type “I am grieving the loss of my dog” into a conventional search engine, the first result I get is a post from a Reddit forum called r/Pets; the post is titled “Struggling After Losing My Dog: Looking for Advice on Coping with Grief,” and the comments are from people who share their experiences of loss.
2026 June 3, Ted Chiang, “No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC:It is clear that a search engine which was taking money for showing cellular phone ads would have difficulty justifying the page that our system returned to its paying advertisers. For this type of reason and historical experience with other media [Bagdikian 83], we expect that advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers.
1998 April, Sergey Brin, Lawrence Page, “The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine”, in Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, →DOI:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| search engines | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
search-engine-friendly · metasearch engine
Translations (73)
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