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Search Engines vs. Browsers

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Rashelly0812
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I'm not very tech savvy and am hoping someone could please explain to me what the roles are of a search engine and a browser on my mobile Android phone. Again, keeping the explanation simple will be most beneficial. Thanks for your help.

I'm not very tech savvy and am hoping someone could please explain to me what the roles are of a search engine and a browser on my mobile Android phone. Again, keeping the explanation simple will be most beneficial. Thanks for your help.

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Paul
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Hi

A search engine is a web service that helps you to find web pages.

A web browser is a software on your device that helps you to access the web.

Firefox for Android is a web browser. Google is a search engine. Firefox for Android has Google set as its default search engine.

I hope that this helps.