search engine
noun
a computer program that searches documents, especially on the World Wide Web, for a specified word or words and provides a list of documents in which they are found.
search engines
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pluralof search engine.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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A.I.-driven search engines listed his clubs as permanently closed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
When the fine-jewelry company Brilliant Earth sought a Reddit strategy manager to shape its presence in conversation “that cascades across search engines, LLMs, and customer decision-making,” for example, an alarm went off at r/jewelry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Companies pay search engines like Google to appear in the search results for everything from airplane tickets to skincare.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026
Most search engines have that as an option, and it might show whether they are telling the truth about who they are.
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2026
So it was Jesse who’d gone on the Web and, between bouts of Quake II, tom through various search engines and relevant Chicago websites.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
