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Website vs. Search Engine Explained

A web browser is a locally-installed application that retrieves and displays web pages, acting as a window to access the internet. A search engine is a website that helps users search other websites using keywords to find information, as there are over 1.8 billion websites and finding information without search engines would be difficult. While related, a browser is a program that displays pages and a search engine is a website that finds pages, with search engines accessed through browsers.

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Website vs. Search Engine Explained

A web browser is a locally-installed application that retrieves and displays web pages, acting as a window to access the internet. A search engine is a website that helps users search other websites using keywords to find information, as there are over 1.8 billion websites and finding information without search engines would be difficult. While related, a browser is a program that displays pages and a search engine is a website that finds pages, with search engines accessed through browsers.

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Difference between Website and Search Engine

A web browser—sometimes called an internet browser, or simply a browser—is a locally-installed software


application for navigating the internet. Its main function is to retrieve and display web pages, like the one
you’re reading right now. Think of your browser as your access to the internet, a window into cyberspace.
A search engine is a web-based service that helps you search for information on the internet based on your
queries. In other words, it’s a website through which users can search other websites using keywords.

It’s estimated that there are over 1.8 billion websites on the internet. Without search engines, finding useful
information on the web would be a difficult and tedious endeavor.
Web browsers and search engines are not the same. They’re related, but they don’t do the same things: A
browser is a software program that displays web pages, whereas a search engine is a website that finds web
pages. A search engine, the service, can be accessed through a web browser, the infrastructure.

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