Students in Mr. Yamaha's sixth-grade geography class are writing reports about continents and must do some portion of their research on the Internet. In order to integrate the activity with the TEKS technology requirements, Mr. Yamaha added to the project criteria that at least two search engines must be used. Which of the following best describes a search engine?

A. A software application that accesses and displays pages and files on the web
B. A software application that searches for and identifies items in a database
C. A software application used for creating, editing, querying, and maintaining information
D. Where data manipulation actually takes place; results are then stored in the computer memory