Q: What is a search engine?A: A search engine is a tool that helps us locate websites that contain information that may be of interest based on the word or phrase that you have entered. You may recognise names such as Google, Yahoo and Bing, all of which are search engines.How you use a search engine depends on what you are trying to achieve. For example, if you were trying to find an image of Bermuda houses you would go to your preferred search engine (we’ll use Google) www.google.com, enter the term Bermuda houses and then select the term images along the left hand side of the page.In 0.15 seconds you will have 2,250,000 images associated with the phrase Bermuda houses.