Part 12: Interpretation and final provisions Interpretation Section 229: "Search engine"
This section sets out the meaning of "search engine". This is relevant to the definition of "search service" in section 3(4), which is an internet service that is, or includes, a search engine.
	Subsection (1)(a) defines a search engine as including services or functionalities which allow a user to search some websites or databases, as well as services which allow a user to hypothetically search all websites or databases. This differentiation ensures that search engines and vertical search engines are both included. A vertical search engine is a search engine that is only focused on a specific topic or a genre of content, such as a search engine that only indexes academic articles. Subsection (1)(b) clarifies that the definition does not include services where a user can only search one website or database, thereby ensuring that websites which only have a search tool internal to the website are not considered search services.
	Subsection (2) makes clear that for a service to be a combined service it is necessary for the entity which would be defined as the provider in relation to the user-to-user part of the service to be the same as the entity which would be defined as the provider in relation to the search engine (although a single entity may be the provider of more than one service).