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Google, Excite and HotBot are examples of web search engines. Search engines are very large databases of web sites that are compiled by computer programs, called spiders or crawlers. Although there may be a list of subject categories (like a web directory), the purpose is to provide powerful searching capabilities of a large number of web sites. |