A search site is the same thing as a search engine.

• A. True
• B. False
• C. Not sure
• D. Both are the same concept

Answer: (B)

A search engine and a search site are related but not identical. The engine is the behind-the-scenes software that crawls, indexes, and ranks web pages to produce search results. The site is the user-facing web page you visit to type a query and view results; it may use its own engine or rely on an external engine. For example, a library site might provide a search box that looks like a search engine but only searches its catalog, while Google.com combines both the front-end interface and the actual search technology for the entire web. Because a site can simply be a front end or a portal that uses someone else’s engine, they aren’t the exact same thing. Therefore the statement is false.