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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Some people have also switched from using traditional search engines to other AI chatbots, which produce answers to questions based on information they have scraped from existing websites.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026
Traditional means of information weren’t far behind search engines.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026
According to the research, this social aspect makes chatbots fundamentally different from tools like notebooks or search engines.
From Science Daily ● May 11, 2026
Google systematically evaluates the factuality of its own models, in terms of both their innate knowledge and their use of the company’s search engines, says a company spokeswoman.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 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
