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National Teaching and Learning Change ProgrammeInformation and Communication Technology: Dictionary

search engine

Search engines collect details of internet resources and their locations and hold this data in a very large database for the search engine to use. A search engine uses a variety of methods to find the required data, such as finding alternative keywords using a thesaurus. There are several proprietary internet search engines, such as Google, Yahoo, Alta Vista.

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hitkeywordsearchsearch resultsadvanced searchagenthithit ratespiderbotrobotproprietarythesaurus
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