Search engine

Draft

According to Wikipedia, “A search engine is an information retrieval system designed to help find information stored on a computer system, such as on the World Wide Web, inside a corporate or proprietary network, or in a personal computer. The search engine allows one to ask for content meeting specific criteria (typically those containing a given word or phrase) and retrieves a list of items that match those criteria. This list is often sorted with respect to some measure of relevance of the results. Search engines use regularly updated indexes to operate quickly and efficiently.” ([1], accessed 17:33, 26 January 2007 (MET))

Links

Lists

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines

special purpose examples

• Musicovery Web-based interface to select music