The first difference between the two words is that search in this form can be either a noun or a verb, selection, in this form, is only noun. Regarding their meaning, the main difference between them is that while in case of search, you do not have a group of people, for example, from which you can chose some people for a job, you need to find appropriate ones by vacancy notices. In case of selection, you have the opportunity to choose the most appropriate persons from a given group. By definition, search means to look through carefully to find something, to examine or to look at a person to find something concealed, or to explore or examine in order to discover something. Select refers to the act of choosing in preference to another, to pick out or to make a choice. In legal context, search, on the one hand, means to examine others’ premises in order to look for evidence of criminal activity, on the other hand it means to trace the records of ownership of real property in what is generally called a “title search”.
