1. Internet Search
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2. Who founded it?: Sergey Brin and Larry
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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.
Google.com

3. Yahoo was founded by David Filo and Jerry Yang
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It started on March 1, 1995. In January 1994, Jerry Yang
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and David Filo were Electrical Engineering graduate
students at Stanford University. In April 1994, quot;Jerry's
Guide to the World Wide Webquot; was renamed quot;Yahoo!quot;, for
which the official expansion is quot;Yet Another Hierarchical
Officious Oraclequot;.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: quot;rude,
unsophisticated, uncouth.quot; Its URL was
akebono.stanford.edu/yahoo.
By the end of 1994, Yahoo! had already received one
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million hits. The Yahoo! domain was created on January 18,
1995.
Yahoo

4. A meta-search engine is a search tool
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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
Meta Search

5. Boolean logic
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Uses operators with keywords to narrow
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serch parameters
Operators include and or and “”+- not
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And narrows results by searching for pages
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that contaion both keywords
Or expands resultys by searching for pages
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that contain either of the keywords
Quotation marks narrow results by searching
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for phrases
Boolean is implies in many search engines,

but still valuable method for narrowing
Boolean Search

6. Google offers several searches such as
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Google Maps, Google Earth, Google News,
Google Video, and Google Images
More About Google

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

8. A Web browser is a software program that
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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
What is a Web Browser

9. Google’s browser is called chrome.
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 Three advantages are: Application
shortcuts, dynamic tabs, crash control,
incognito mode, safe browsing, instant
bookmarks, import setting, and simpler
downloads
Google’s Browser