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search engine definition - telecom
  1. A program that searches a database of documents and files for information.The search looks for keywords or exact phrases found in titles or text. See also database.
  2. Application software that develops and maintains resource directories of documents and files found on the Internet that it searches using key words or phrases.A search engine can be restricted to a single website, or can search across many sites on the public Internet. See also Internet and software.

Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary Copyright © 2008 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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