How to Use search engine in a Sentence

search engine

noun
Definition of search enginenext
  • Bands is the largest search engine for events in the world.
    — Eric Fuller, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2022
  • The result was the Bing search engine, launched in 2009.
    — Eva Dou, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Simply put, no logs of your queries are kept by the search engine.
    — Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 26 Nov. 2023
  • In some cases, the search engine seemed to express anger and love.
    — Joseph De Avila, WSJ, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Type her name in the Google.com search engine, and see what sites pop up … pretty cool stuff!
    — WIRED, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Pop-ups and ads are snuffed out, and of course the DuckDuckGo search engine is built in, free of the Google trappings.
    — David Nield, WIRED, 6 Apr. 2024
  • But the company still has 90% of the world search engine market.
    — Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 2 June 2024
  • But no one at the search engine giant should panic yet.
    — Gene Marks, Forbes, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Google’s search engine tends to hold up well in both good and bad economic times.
    — Nico Grant, New York Times, 25 July 2023
  • Search for the name of the site, then click on the three vertical dots next to the URL in the results to see what date it was first indexed by the search engine.
    — Heather Kelly, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2022
  • What are the most common search engine results for ASU?
    — Helen Rummel, The Arizona Republic, 11 Sep. 2024
  • Google has the data treasure trove of YouTube, Google Office and its search engine.
    — Alexandra Sternlicht, Fortune, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The search engine looks for names with similar spellings.
    — Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 10 Apr. 2022
  • Google is the most popular search engine; YouTube is the second.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 13 May 2022
  • The search engine also searches through the deep web, a part of the internet that Google does not index.
    — Dallas News, 25 Oct. 2022
  • This will be sent to Bing, Microsoft’s search engine, which will extract the text for you.
    — Justin Pot, Wired, 8 Mar. 2022
  • See the best prices according to the travel search engine below.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Getting good data is the whole ball game for Google and any other search engine.
    — David Pierce, The Verge, 14 May 2024
  • TikTok is leaning in even more to its app being used like a search engine.
    — Mia Sato, The Verge, 18 Mar. 2024
  • The trial, which will be decided by a judge instead of a jury, comes on the heels of the case over Google’s search engine.
    — Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2024
  • This includes your default search engine, home page and start pages.
    — Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 20 Feb. 2024
  • In Notion’s case, Q&A is mostly a mix of search engine and chatbot.
    — David Pierce, The Verge, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Internet search engines do the same thing on an enormous scale.
    — Lauren Kane, The New York Review of Books, 17 June 2023
  • But search engines aren’t the only place your audience hangs out.
    — John Hall, Forbes, 16 July 2023
  • Web scraping goes back decades, mainly by search engines to gather links to web pages.
    — Kali Hays, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2024
  • That’s where Plex can help with its universal search engine.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 6 Apr. 2022
  • Google is dealing with the effects of a massive leak that claimed to expose the inner workings of its search engine.
    — Justin Klawans, theweek, 17 June 2024
  • The search engine also offers flight tracking and alerts.
    — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Google has been at the center of the biggest antitrust trial in decades, as the DOJ questions practices that have kept the search engine front and center on smartphones and web browsers.
    — Brooke Seipel, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2024
  • And with a traditional search engine, a query that’s too specific won’t yield many results.
    — Lila Shroff, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2024

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