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- [Instructor] Search engines are built for the purpose of taking big piles of data that need to be searched and getting that data into an optimal searchable format. The results of searches need to make sense to the users performing them, and a search engine helps extract the best answers when asking questions about the data. The primary purpose of a search engine is to be able to store searchable data in such a way as to provide the best answers to search queries and in the most performant manner. Searches need to be fast, reliable, and provide the best results based on relevancy to the query. This is one big distinction between something like a database and a search engine. Aside from also being slow, database queries are typically used to return all of the answers to a query. A search engine is designed instead to return the best, most relevant answers and do so quickly. Amazon CloudSearch is a search engine. At a high…

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