1.A tool that enables users to locate information on the World Wide Web. Search engines use keywords entered by users to find Web sites which contain the information sought. Some search engines are specifically designed to find Web sites intended for children.

2. A “search engine” is a Web site that employs bots to search the Web. Search engines take the information gathered by its bots and use it to create a searchable index of the Net. The “search” in search engine refers to the searching the bots do, not the searching you do to find things on the (search engines are often organized solely by keyword search).

3. A program that searches documents for specified keywords and returns a list of the documents or Web pages where the keywords were found. Also applies to Web sites that catalogue other Web sites by topic. By entering your subject or title, you access their database, which hopefully provides you with a list of Web sites containing pertinent information.

4. A program that performs keyword searches for information on the Internet.

5. A server or a collection of servers dedicated to indexing internet web pages, storing the results and returning lists of pages which match particular queries. The indexes are normally generated using spiders. Some of the major search engines are Altavista, Excite, Hotbot, Infoseek, Lycos, Northern Light and Webcrawler. Note that Yahoo is a directory, not a search engine. The term Search Engine is also often used to describe both directories and search engines.

6. Computer programs used in databases and on the Internet that search for records that match your request. In a catalog or index database, search engines search specified fields (author, title, subject headings, etc.) of each record in the database. On the web, the robots crawl about the web indexing sites, usually looking at URLs, text in the document, or the heading of the document. (See also Directory).

7. A program that searches for specified keywords and returns a list of the documents, or Web sites, where the keywords were found. Alta Vista, Google, and Northern Lights are examples of search engines which look for documents on the Internet. Compare with Internet directory.

8. A special kind of Web page where the user types in a query and in return receives a list of links to sites that include all or part of what was typed. The best way to find information on the World

9. Wide Web if you don’t already have the relevant URL. Some Web sites (including this one) have their own internal search facilities which allow users to search only within that site.

10. A web-based program that allows users to search and retrieve specific information from the World Wide Web. The search engine may search the full text of web documents or a list of keywords, or use librarians who review web documents and index them manually for retrieval. Here is more information on search engines.

11. A web-based program that allows users to search for and retrieve specific information from the World Wide Web. The search engine may search the full text of web documents or a list of keywords, or use librarians who review web documents and index them manually for retrieval. Typically, the user types a word or phrase, also called a query, into a search box, and the search engine displays links to relevant web pages.

12. In order to find documents on the WWW, you need to use a search engine. Search engines are very large databases that contain information about web pages. Search engines are automatically updated by special programs called “robots” or “spiders” that search the WWW for new content and then report their findings to the database. There are many different web search engines that you can use to do a search. Some of the most popular ones are AltaVista, WebCrawler and Excite. Ask a librarian if you need help using a search engine.

13. A tool that searches documents by keyword and returns a list of possible matches; most often used in reference to programs such as Google that are used by your web browser to search the Internet for a particular topic.

14. A program that searches documents for specified keywords and returns a list of the documents where the keywords were found. Although a search engine is really a general class of programs, the term is often used to specifically describe systems like Alta Vista and Excite that enable users to search for documents on the World Wide Web and USENET newsgroups.

15. A search engine is a type of program which searches for specific keywords on your website. Search Engines roam around the web with sophisticated spidering software, picking up all the tidbits of information that interest them. Examples of different sites that are powered by search engines are AltaVista, Excite, and Google.

16. The software that searches an index and returns matches. Search engine is often used synonymously with spider and index, although these are separate components that work with the engine.

17. On the Internet, a program that searches for keywords in files and documents found on the World Wide Web. Some search engines are used for a single Internet site, such as a dedicated search engine for a Web site. Others search across many sites, using such agents as spiders to gather lists of available files and documents and store these lists in databases which users can search by keyword. Examples of the latter type of search engine include Lycos and Excite. (adapted from the Microsoft Press Computer Dictionary, Third Edition)

18. A system dedicated to the search and retrieval of information for the purpose of cataloging the results. Usually based on an index of several HTML documents, so you can easily locate the document(s) you are looking for.

19. A program that searches documents for specified keywords and returns a list of the documents where the keywords were found. Although search engine is really a general class of programs, the term is often used to specifically describe systems like Alta Vista and Excite that enable users to search for documents on the World Wide Web and USENET newsgroups.

20. An Internet site that allows users to search for specific information or Web sites. A popular search engine is www.altavista.com.

21. A search engine is a web-based software tool that enables the user to locate sites and pages on the web based on the information they contain. Hierarchical search engines organize known sites in “trees” that the user browses in order to find a site that deals with a particular topic. Yahoo (http://yahoo.com) is an example of hierarchical search engine. Free-form search engines typically present a form in which the user types words that specify the information sought. The search engine returns a hot list of pages containing those words. AltaVista (http://altavista.digital.com) and Excite! (http://www.excite.com) are examples of free-form search engines.

22. A tool or program which allows keyword searching for relevant sites or information on the Internet. General and topic-specific search engines are prevalent today, for example, UK Favourites, WebCrawler, Infoseek, Lycos, and Yahoo are examples of search engines.

23. A Web service that permits access to and searching of a computer-generated index of Web pages. A search engine lets you enter keywords and then finds and displays a list of all pages that contain the keywords that you entered. Use the Qwest.net search services.

24. A special software/hardware implementation that allows users to search the World Wide Web for information based on keywords and other search criteria. The search engine is one of the most useful aspects of the World Wide Web. Some of the major ones are InfoSeek, Alta Vista, Excite, Lycos, Webcrawler, and Yahoo.

25. A web-based program that allows users to search and retrieve specific information online. The search engine may search the full text of web documents or a list of keywords, or use librarians who review web documents and index them manually for retrieval.

26. A program that performs keyword searches for information on the Internet. The program sends a robot to an Internet site and it gathers keywords and stores them. When you search, it’s search results are gathered by relavence to your query. Some of the more popular search engines are Altavista, Go, Thunderstone. (See Directory) Learn More About Search Engines

27. 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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