Search engines are programs that enable a user to search and find content under the category that a user is searching for and related results. A search engine receives a users input that is typed from a keyboard and then analyses the words typed in and searches through the database through related context/results. If the words typed in is recognizable, it will bring up Websites/URLS of sites that are related to the content.
A search engine is not to be confused with a browser. While a search engine finds websites/content, a browser is a application or program that is the interface used to host search engines using HTML. Although to some degree, they overlap, they do not always.
For example: Google and Yahoo are search engines that looks up input received by a user while examples of a browser will be Opera, Internet Explorer, and Firefox (Mozilla Firefox)
