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).
Part 12: Interpretation and final provisions Interpretation Section 229: "Search engine"