What is "search" and "search engine"? Are these words with well defined legal meaning (as you seem to use them like that)? To you, a software person, search mi

What is "search" and "search engine"? Are these words with well defined legal meaning (as you seem to use them like that)? To you, a software person, search might be to look up and compare a string with a pile of other strings. To non-sw people, it is to look for the correct (abstract or concrete) thing/answer. Why should your definition win?