1) CBC Radio One program 2) Google or Bing 3) Internet explorer 4) Online tool 5) Technology podcast 6) Yahoo Answers
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[radio show] Search Engine was a weekly Canadian radio show that aired on CBC Radio One, then a dedicated podcast distributed by the CBC and finally by TVOntario. It was hosted by Jesse Brown, who also co-produced the show with Geoff Siskind and Andrew Parker. Cory Doctorow, novelist and editor of Boing Boing, was also a regular contributor...
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[computing] A search engine is an information retrieval system designed to help find information stored on a computer system. The search results are usually presented in a list and are commonly called hits. Search engines help to minimize the time required to find information and the amount of information which must be consulted, akin to ot...
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a facility that allows you to search for keywords in databases, archives or web pages - well known ones include Alta-Vista, Excite, Yahoo, Webcrawler, Google, etc.
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[Noun] An index on the Internet which helps people to find web pages on a particular topic.
Example: I found the information I was looking for by using a search engine on the Internet.
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computer program to find answers to queries in a collection of information, which might be a library catalog or a database but is most commonly the ... [6 related articles]
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server that allows a user to find the name or address of an Internet resource based on some search criteria, such as keywords EXAMPLES - Google, Lycos, WebCrawler, Yahoo, AltaVista. NOTE - See Figure A.5.
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strictly, the programme(s) used to provide internet users with a search facility. Nowadays, the megacorporation that owns same.
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(Digital cameras and photo printers) Helps catalogue and find the huge amount of information available on the Internet. (Altavista, Google, Lycos and Yahoo)
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A tool that creates indices of websites, usually based upon their content and key words. The search engine has an interface that allows the user to key in specific search terms and then presents them with a list of those web addresses that meet the specified requirement. The list is presented in hypertext form which means that the user can click on...
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A search engine is an information retrieval system designed to help find information stored on a computer system. Search engines help to minimize the time required to find information and the amount of information which must be consulted, akin to other techniques for managing information overload.
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A directory of Internet content. If you're looking for specific information on the WWW, a search engine can list Web sites at which you'll likely find that information. Popular search engines include Excite, Snap, Yahoo, and Infoseek.
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Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc., are examples of Search Engines which locate, list and rank (according to various crietria and unknown algorithms) relevant websites and website content on the Internet when the user types in key words or phrases
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A web site dedicated to helping users find information on the WWW. Google is a high profile example.
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A (usually web-based) system for searching the information available on the Web. Some search engines work by automatically searching the contents of other systems and creating a database of the results. Other search engines contains only material manually approved for inclusion in a database, and some combine the two approaches.
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A program that searches web pages for specified keywords and returns a list of the documents where the keywords were found. Up to 80% of traffic to a typical website is generated by search engines.
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In computer terms, a search engine is a service provided on the world wide web which allows a user to search for web pages related to a word, or phrase. Search engines are large databases which index the content of millions of web pages. They often do this with a program known as a 'spider' or 'web crawler' which acesses a web page, indexes it, and...
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On the Internet, a search engine is a coordinated set of programs that includes: A spider (also called a "crawler" or a "bot") that goes to every page or representative pages on every Web site that wants to be searchable and reads it, using hypertext links on each page to discover and read a site's other pages A program that cre...
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[
n] - a computer program that retrieves documents or files or data from a database or from a computer network (especially from the internet)
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An online service which can trawl through the contents of the Web (Websites, newsgroups, email addresses) looking for specific phrases or words. The engine asks you for keywords and then provides a list of web sites that contain your chosen words. Clicking on the listed web sites will take you to the relevant web page.
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noun a computer program that retrieves documents or files or data from a database or from a computer network (especially from the internet)
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Applications within the World Wide Web that help direct you to your specific area of interest. Example: Yahoo, Infoseek, Lycos, Alta Vista, etc.
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In computing, online program to help users find information on the Internet. Commercial search engines such as Google, Yahoo!, and Lycos comprise databases of documents, Usenet articles, images, and news stories, which can be searched by keying in a key word or phrase. The databases are compiled ...
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