Which of the following is a search engine?

The Internet has created revolutionary changes in this era of Information Technology. Searching for specific information is the main purpose of using the Internet and search engines are one such tool.

Search Engines:

• A search engine helps to manage, filter and retrieve information for its users.
• Search engines are automated tools to search for information from a collection using metadata stored in the database of search engine.
• It is an information retrieval system and assists in locating information on the web.
• It is a generic term used for the software that ‘searches’ the web for pages relating to a specific query.
• It can help in locating information of relevance on a particular subject by using various search methods.
• Google, Bing and Yahoo! are the most popular search engines.

Hence, it can be concluded from the given points that Google is a search engine.

• Flash: It is a video file format.

Web Browser:

• It is a software application that provides functionality to a client to display and interact with text, images and other information located on a web server on the World Wide Web.
• Some of the popular web browsers are Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, etc.
• A browser is a piece of software that retrieves and displays web pages; a search engine is a website that helps people find web pages from other websites.