Meaning of search engine | Babel Free
Definitions
An application that searches for, and retrieves, data based on some criteria, especially one that searches the Internet for documents containing specified words.
Equivalents
Afrikaans
soekenjin
العربية
محرك بحث
Azərbaycanca
axtarış mexanizmi
Čeština
vyhledávač
Cymraeg
peiriant chwilio
Dansk
søgemaskine
Deutsch
Suchmaschine
Ελληνικά
μηχανή αναζήτησης
Esperanto
serĉilo
Français
moteur de recherche
Gàidhlig
lorgair
עברית
מנוע חיפוש
Italiano
motore di ricerca
ქართული
საძიებო სისტემა
한국어
검색 엔진
Lëtzebuergesch
Sichmaschinn
Македонски
пребарувач
Română
motor de căutare
Svenska
sökmotor
Türkçe
arama motoru
Українська
пошуковик
Examples
“The MEMEX search engine with Textract software has been proved able to search the 1,251,521 records of the Pre-1920 Catalogue in four minutes.”
“It is clear that a search engine which was taking money for showing cellular phone ads would have difficulty justifying the page that our system returned to its paying advertisers. For this type of reason and historical experience with other media [Bagdikian 83], we expect that advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers.”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
See also
Know this word better than we do? Language is a living thing — help us keep it growing. Collaborate with Babel Free