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# Defining Terms

Words can get unwieldy quickly. Here are a few words/phrases we are using in specific ways throughout our proposal.

## Phoebe

* The *provisional* name for our next generation web search engine.

## Search

* Unless otherwise qualified this is used synonymously with "web search" and "search engine."