Search Engine definition

Search Engine means computer software which crawls the Internet, downloads and analyzes text and other data, sorts and organizes the data, creates an index of accessible data, and, after receiving a particular search request (in the form of a word query), locates material accessible in the database, and presents the results of the search.
Search Engine means Google, Yahoo, Bing, or any other search engine, portal, sponsored advertising service, or other search or referral service, or any site that participates in any of their respective networks.
Search Engine means technology and systems that use algorithms to sift through and index vast third‑party websites and content on the Internet in response to search queries entered by a user. The term does not include the license of search functionality for the purpose of enabling the licensee to operate a third‑party search engine service in circumstances where the licensee does not have legal or operational control of the search algorithm, the index from which results are generated, or the ranking order in which the results are provided.

Examples of Search Engine in a sentence

  • Customer, at its own expense, shall provide all data transmission capacity (bandwidth) required to connect to and receive information from the Inktomi Search Engine.

  • Customer may run reasonable tests against the Test Cluster and the production version of the Inktomi Search Engine, provided however that Customer may not conduct any load testing (prior to commercial launch of its search service) without the prior consent of Inktomi.

  • Inktomi, at its own expense, shall provide all data transmission capacity (bandwidth), disk storage, server capacity and other hardware and software required to run the Inktomi Search Engine and maintain the Database.

  • The support of Search Engine Advertizing (SEA) and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is allowed by the Publisher (e.g. xml-sitemap of websites with displays of metadata for inclusion of Search Engine Indexes; support of crawler like Googlebot) as well as the provision of the Metadata as Linked Open Data.

  • Once cleared by Inktomi, Inktomi shall provide access to Customer to the production version of the Inktomi Search Engine.


More Definitions of Search Engine

Search Engine means a computer program called Google that searches for and identifies items in a database that correspond to keywords or characters specified by a user, used especially for finding particular sites on the internet.
Search Engine means the interagency reportable conduct search engine established under this chapter.
Search Engine means a search engine operated under the Google, Bing, Ask or Yahoo! brands.
Search Engine is defined in Section 2.17(a)(vii).
Search Engine means a computer program, available to the public without charge, to search for and identify websites on the World Wide Web based on a User Query.
Search Engine means a program that crawls and indexes the text of the World Wide Web and/or Usenet newsgroups and which index can be queried using Boolean logic or similar query methods. The term "crawls", as used herein, shall have the meaning set forth in Section 1.1(n).
Search Engine means any computer system or service that (i) searches for and identifies items in a