[yau8edq12i]

Fun fact: the French word engin still retains its original meaning of contrivance, contraption. But we still translate "search engine," which refers to this archaic English meaning, as moteur de recherche ("search motor").

[fvdessen]

“engin de recherche” could have worked as well, but “engin” also has a taken negative connotation of something that doesn’t work well