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search engine

[surch en-juhn] / ˈsɜrtʃ ˌɛn dʒən /
NOUN
computer program that searches
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The EU said Google abused its market dominance as a search engine by promoting its own comparison-shopping service in search results and demoting those of competitors.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 1, 2026

I mean, people have been scraping the whole web since the first search engine.

From Salon • Jun. 22, 2026

Other Chinese firms on the list include search engine platform Baidu, electric car marker Nio and aircraft manufacturer Comac.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026

The search engine and cloud computing company is expected to spend the money raised on building data centers that feature its own custom chips, which Broadcom helps design.

From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026

He went online, cranked up a search engine, started browsing.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz




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