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 +====== Search Engine ======
  
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 +===== Definition =====
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 +**Search engines** are applications for document and information research in the World Wide Web.
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 +For this they create a [[keyword]] [[index]] in order to generate results that are sorted by their relevance to the searched keyword.
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 +The [[search results|results]] usually consist of the [[title]] and the [[description]] from the respective page.
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 +====== Trivia ======
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 +There are specialized and general search engines. From the general search engines, Google has a market share of almost 90% on desktop devices worldwide.