For Search Engine we have terms and definitions in 13 topics. The topics are Ancestors, Computer Technology, Interactive Marketing, Internet, Library, Public Speaking, RSS, Research, Search, Search Engine, Search Engine Marketing, Search Engine Optimization and Technology.

Search Engine (Ancestors)

Essentially an electronic version of the traditional card catalogue found in libraries; used to help genealogists and other users quickly find needed information from the millions of web sites now on the Internet.

Search Engine (Computer Technology)

Literally, the software used to search for information within a given database. Often used to mean a website with a database of other websites and the information they contain. Since the Web is such a large place, it is handy to go to search engines when you can't find the information you are looking for. (Yahoo! and AltaVista are search engines.)

Search Engine (Interactive Marketing)

A program that helps Web users find information on the Internet. The method for finding this information is usually done by maintaining an index of Web resources that can be queried for the keywords or concepts entered by the user.

Search Engine (Internet)

This term refers to a program that helps users find information in text-oriented databases.

Search Engine (Library)

A software program that enables you to perform keyword searches for information on the Internet or in databases. (Examples: Google, Yahoo!)

Search Engine (Public Speaking)

A search aid that indexes Web pages and checks them for sites that match a researcher's request.

Search Engine (RSS)

A program that searches documents for given 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.

Search Engine (Research)

A program that allows users to search for material on the Web or at a specific Web site. Sometimes the search function of a database is called its search engine.

Search Engine (Search)

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.

Search Engine (Search Engine)

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.

Search Engine (Search Engine Marketing)

A web site that keeps a record of web sites on the Internet within its own database. Search engines offer links to web sites in the world wide web. Search engines list these web sites in order of relevancy to a user's search query and importance placed on the site by the search engine.

Search Engine (Search Engine Optimization)

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.

Search Engine (Technology)

1. A program that searches for key words in documents or in a database. 2. On the Internet, a program that searches for keywords in files and documents found on the World Wide Web, newsgroups, Gopher menus, and FTP archives. 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 that users can search by keyword. Examples of the latter type of search engine are Lycos, AliWeb, and Excite. Most search engines reside on a server. See also agent (definition 2), FTP, Gopher, newsgroup, spider, World Wide Web.

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