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A search engine is a program that :

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Searches for web pages

A search engine is a software program that crawls and indexes web pages and then returns a ranked list of pages matching the keywords a user enters. Google, Bing and Yahoo are common examples.

It does not look for missing files on a computer, nor is it limited to a particular kind of data or to portals alone; its job is to locate and list web pages relevant to the query.

Hence, the answer is Searches for web pages.

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