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Conversion of search engine (noun).

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search-engine (third-person singular simple present search-engines, present participle search-engining, simple past and past participle search-engined)

  1. (computing, Internet, transitive) To look up on a search engine.
    Hyponym: google
  2. (computing, Internet, intransitive) To use a search engine; to look things up on a search engine.

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