search engine
noun
: computer software used to search data (such as text or a database) for specified information
also
: a site on the World Wide Web that uses such software to locate key words in other sites
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Earlier this week, a federal judge in Delaware handed a victory to Thomson Reuters in a lawsuit regarding a legal-research search engine that uses artificial intelligence.
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Ars Technica, 13 Feb. 2025
It was censored to comply with Beijing’s laws, and in 2009, was a major search engine in China with about 36% market share.
—Zen Soo, Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 2025
To be sure, Google has its own generative AI tools baked into Search, which provides AI results in addition to returning the regular search engine results.
—Jeff Marks,kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 28 Jan. 2025
Their 2022 return and rebranding introduced publicly available project lists, ethics rules and a search engine to track the spending as efforts to provide public transparency about earmarks.
—Lorelei Kelly, The Conversation, 24 Jan. 2025
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Ars Technica, 13 Feb. 2025
It was censored to comply with Beijing’s laws, and in 2009, was a major search engine in China with about 36% market share.
—Zen Soo, Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 2025
To be sure, Google has its own generative AI tools baked into Search, which provides AI results in addition to returning the regular search engine results.
—Jeff Marks,kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 28 Jan. 2025
Their 2022 return and rebranding introduced publicly available project lists, ethics rules and a search engine to track the spending as efforts to provide public transparency about earmarks.
—Lorelei Kelly, The Conversation, 24 Jan. 2025
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“Search engine.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/search%20engine. Accessed 24 Feb. 2025.
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