what is "search engine"?

Question

what do u mean by search engine?

Answer 1

A "Search Engine" is a website designed to allow the computer user to lookup any kind of information that they might find necessary or useful to them......."Google" is the TOP search engine on the internet. :)

Answer 2

Just like a car you would drive around from place to place looking for a particular item the search engine takes your question and compiles it's best answer from it's data base. There are many search engines out there and some are better at looking for a particular item than others. Ask Jeeves" may be better at finding moon rocks for sale than Google. i use multple search engines when looking and I find the one in "Internet Explorer 7" LIVE SEARCH to be one of the best suited for any search. Hope this helped,SGRS

Answer 3

A search engine is an information retrieval system designed to help find information stored on a computer system, such as on the World Wide Web, inside a corporate or proprietary network, or in a personal computer. The search engine allows one to ask for content meeting specific criteria (typically those containing a given word or phrase) and retrieves a list of items that match those criteria. This list is often sorted with respect to some measure of relevance of the results. Search engines use regularly updated indexes to operate quickly and efficiently.

Without further qualification, search engine usually refers to a Web search engine, which searches for information on the public Web. Other kinds of search engine are enterprise search engines, which search on intranets, personal search engines, and mobile search engines. Different selection and relevance criteria may apply in different environments, or for different uses.

Some search engines also mine data available in newsgroups, databases, or open directories. Unlike Web directories, which are maintained by human editors, search engines operate algorithmically or are a mixture of algorthmic and human input.

Answer 4

A search engine is generally a web-based application used to find resources on the web. Example: I want to find information about tuna, so I would type the address of my favorite search engine (www.google.com) in the address bar. When the pages appears, I type "tuna" no quotes in the search box and click search. I am then presented with numerous links with information about tuna. Clicking these links will take me to the site.

Answer 5

Is the area where you type what you want to look up. A search engine for example: Yahoo: says: Search:

Answer 6

it lets you search things. Its just some dumb name, thats why theres the engine part. They're just research tools.

Answer 7

it is a software used to search everything in the internet

Answer 8

http://www.google.com that is a search engine

Answer 9

like yahoo, google.............where you would type something in the search bar & it searches.