search engine

2 definitions found

search engine - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  search engine
      n 1: a computer program that retrieves documents or files or
           data from a database or from a computer network (especially
           from the internet)

search engine - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  search engine
  
     <World-Wide Web, tool, information science> A remotely
     accessible program that lets you do keyword searches for
     information on the Internet.  There are several types of
     search engine; the search may cover titles of documents,
     URLs, headers, or the full text.
  
     A list of search engines (http://cuiwww.unige.ch/meta-index.html#MISC)
     , Centre
     Universitaire d'Informatique at the University of Geneva
  
     (1995-11-28)