Search Engine
A program that searches for key words in documents, databases, Internet content or other files.
A website directory which indexes as many websites as it can and allows you to search its database for sites on particular subjects. Because of the immense size and rate of growth of the world wide web, no-one has a complete directory of all sites which exist. The most popular is- Google, so popular that it’s name has become a verb.
Depending on the search engine, there are generally several ways to search. If you type a phrase such as golden isles, the search engine will normally search for all documents that contain golden and/or isles, giving highest priority to those that contain both words. Alternatively, you can specify that you want only the documents that contain the whole phrase, and you can specify boolean (“and” and “or”) relationships between words you are searching for (e.g., “Visa OR MasterCard” versus “Visa AND MasterCard”). There is generally a help button that explains how to perform various kinds of searches. See also BOOLEAN QUERY; FULL-TEXT SEARCH. Some people pay large amounts of money to try to get their web sites listed on search engines. This is unnecessary because every search engine’s job is to find all possible web sites by itself, and major search engines gladly accept additional web addresses from anyone who wants to submit them. Search engine operators do not take kindly to attempts to manipulate the system by listing a web site dishonestly to generate
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