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I think the correct terms would be "web search engine" or "web search" and "search engine" or "full-text search engine". Wikipedia says "web search engine". But I agree, the ubiquity of Google as the "search engine" makes it a bit muddy to acknowledge that a search engine is any program or system that is used to search data. It's an interesting information retrieval concept that can be applied to many things.



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