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+A [search engine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine) is a software system designed to carry out [web searches](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_query).
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 - [Gigablast](https://www.gigablast.com/) - Open-source search engine. ([Source Code](https://github.com/gigablast/open-source-search-engine)) `Apache-2.0` `C++`
 - [Jina](https://github.com/jina-ai/jina/) - Cloud-native neural search framework for any kind of data. `Apache-2.0` `Python`
 - [librengine](https://github.com/liameno/librengine) - Private web search engine. `GPL-3.0` `C++`