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Distributed search engine
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<p>A distributed search engine is a <a href="/facts/Search_engine/SRntsbz2">search engine</a> where there is no central server. Unlike traditional centralized search engines, work such as <a href="/facts/Web_crawler/ra7D1xyb">crawling</a>, <a href="/facts/Data_mining/AH53q5ac">data mining</a>, indexing, and <a href="/facts/Web_search_query/xY17HbzT">query</a> processing is <a href="/facts/Distributed_computing/o5nyhqTF">distributed</a> among several peers in a decentralized manner where there is no single point of control. </p>