====== Search Engine ======

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===== Definition =====

**Search engines** are applications for document and information research in the World Wide Web.

For this they create a [[keyword]] [[index]] in order to generate results that are sorted by their relevance to the searched keyword.

The [[search results|results]] usually consist of the [[title]] and the [[description]] from the respective page.

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====== Trivia ======

There are specialized and general search engines. From the general search engines, Google has a market share of almost 90% on desktop devices worldwide.