SEARCH ENGINE FOR CONTENT SEARCHING

A search engine for searching digital content items has been disclosed herein. The search engine may be utilized by one or more users to perform keywords-based search for retrieving digital content items from the World Wide Web or one or more databases in real time. The search engine includes a search bar for receiving keywords from a user for searching relevant digital content items. The search engine further includes searching modes, such as a value mode, a popularity mode, and an expert mode, that is selectable by the user to perform the search. The search engine further includes privacy modes including a private mode and a public mode. One of the privacy modes is selected by the user to set the user's privacy. The search engine may further execute the search request based on the one or more keywords, the selected searching mode, and the set user's privacy.