You know what? Maybe they do, in the larger sense of "search engine". But if we make the definition too generic then folk will start naming Bloomberg and Lexis

You know what? Maybe they do, in the larger sense of "search engine". But if we make the definition too generic then folk will start naming Bloomberg and LexisNexis and you and I, being two guys called Jacques who remember the late 90s, will wonder how these companies wound up in the same category as Alta Vista, Lycos or Excite.