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Difference between a search engine and a site which has a search section ??

by Maddy5
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Me and one of my friend has a argument on that if a website which has a search section is consider to be a search engine or not ??

For example we call google a search engine so can we say the same for amazon ?? Or can we call a website search engine if it has a search section ??
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  • Profile picture of the author expmrb
    Search engines are for the entire web community. For all the sites in the world which wanna get found.

    And search sections are for the particular site only. You search for terms which belong to that site.
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  • Profile picture of the author Arvind Kumar
    search engines can be google, yahoo or bing..you can use to search anything in this world......site search engine can help in finding specific information for that site...for big websites these search engine helps in finding information easily...!!
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    • Profile picture of the author rubanisharma
      Agree With You dear @arvind
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    • Profile picture of the author Maddy5
      Thanks for your reply so you are saying that a search which has a search section is a search engine right ??
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  • Profile picture of the author dcristo
    There are search features for websites and there are search engines for the World Wide Web. Both serve different purposes, but are based on the same premise that you're searching for specific information.

    When people talk about SEO, it applies to search engines like Google. You're essentially optimizing a website to make it more accessible to searchers.
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  • Profile picture of the author wifiboos
    A proper search engine like Google or Bing indexes content from around the web. It attracts visitors for free who are looking for something anywhere on the Internet. Because of the volume of daily searches search engines run ad networks for advertisers. They make their money from advertisers.

    Amazon like Youtube also provide an on site search but can also run contextual ads for advertisers. The main point is that the searches apply to content available only through that portal. In the case of Amazon the content is a vast amount of categorised product information. In the case of Youtube results are always videos presented like Google does in an order it considers most relevant to the search request. As you would expect since Google owns Youtube
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  • Profile picture of the author elizbethsewell666
    All the site that have search sections are not search engines, basically they are using plugins of search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing for searching but they are not search engines.
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  • Profile picture of the author logoartistdesign
    A website search section is to search for a particular thing which is present on that site only.
    Search engine is like a giant database that contains information from all over the world and users can search for anything they want like information, videos, images etc.
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