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search engine

software designed to examine documents, websites, etc. in order to locate items on a specified topic or having a given property

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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