IP-TEC - Infopeople Technical Service Archive: Definition of "search engine"

Definition of "search engine"

Whittier Public Library (wpl@quick.net)
Tue, 2 Jul 1996 08:47:28 -0700

"Search engine" has come to mean, over the Internet, a database of
'net sites. I'm looking for a definition that addresses the
information science/development aspect of the term, i.e., the concept
of a search engine as software design, functionality and operation.
I have checked the few computer dictionaries we have, and I've
sought glossaries and dictionaries on the Web. (The closest I got
was a Croatian/English dictionary of information science terms on
a machine in Hungary.) Does anybody have a decent dictionary of
information science with a fitting definition?

Dean C. Rowan
Whittier Public Library