Tag: internet search engines

A web search engine or Internet search engine is a software system that is designed to carry out web search , which means to search the World Wide Web in a systematic way for particular information specified in a textual web search query.

The information may be a mix of links to web pages, images, videos, infographics, articles, research papers, and other types of files.Unlike web directories, which are maintained only by human editors, search engines also maintain real-time information by running an algorithm on a web crawler.