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Google.com

Who founded it?: Sergey Brin and Larry Page on September 4, 1998

Google was founded because its creators They hypothesized that a search engine that analyzed the relationships between websites would produce better ranking of results than existing techniques, which ranked results according to the number of times the search term appeared on a page.

Yahoo

Yahoo was founded by David Filo and Jerry Yang It started on March 1, 1995. In January 1994, Jerry Yang and

David Filo were Electrical Engineering graduate students at Stanford University. In April 1994, "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" was renamed "Yahoo!", for which the official expansion is "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle".Filo and Yang said they selected the name because they liked the word's general definition, which comes from Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth." Its URL was akebono.stanford.edu/yahoo.

By the end of 1994, Yahoo! had already received one million hits. The Yahoo! domain was created on January 18, 1995.

Meta Search

A meta-search engine is a search tool that sends user requests to several other search engines and/or databases and aggregates the results into a single list or displays them according to their source

Boolean Search

Boolean logicUses operators with keywords to narrow serch

parametersOperators include and or and “”+- notAnd narrows results by searching for pages that

contaion both keywordsOr expands resultys by searching for pages that

contain either of the keywordsQuotation marks narrow results by searching for

phrasesBoolean is implies in many search engines, but still

valuable method for narrowing

More About Google

Google offers several searches such as Google Maps, Google Earth, Google News, Google Video, and Google Images

How does Google make money?

Google makes money off of the ads that show up in searches and commissions on sales. Google also offers several services for sale in addition to their free services.

What is a Web Browser

A Web browser is a software program that interprets the coding language of the World Wide Web in graphic form, displaying the translation rather than the coding. This allows anyone to “browse the Web” by simple point and click navigation, bypassing the need to know commands used in software languages.

Examples are Safari, Firefox, Mosaic, Internet Explorer, and the Phoenix

Google’s Browser

Google’s browser is called chrome.Three advantages are: Application

shortcuts, dynamic tabs, crash control, incognito mode, safe browsing, instant bookmarks, import setting, and simpler downloads