3-12-09
P.4.

Google was founded by Sergey Brin and Larry
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Page on September 4, 1998.
They hypothesized that a search engine that
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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 was created by Jerry Yang and David Filo in
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January 1994.
Yahoo was created as another guide to search the

Internet.

Meta Search is a search tool that sends user
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requests to several other search engines and/or
databases and aggregates the results into a single
list or displays them according to their source.
They take a user's request, pass it to several other

heterogeneous databases and then compile the
results in a homogeneous manner based on a
specific algorithm.

• Boolean Search uses operators with keywords to narrow
search parameters
Boolean Search uses +, -, ( ), and , or, not.
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Google also offers maps, translations, images,
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videos, and news.
Google makes money off searches by selling
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Advertising space.

A web browser is a software application
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which enables a user to display and interact with
text, images, videos, music, games and other
information typically located on a Web page at a
Web site on the World Wide Web or a local area
network.
Ex: Lynx, Safari, Mozilla, AOL
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Google’s browser is Google Chrome.
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Google Chrome is faster, safer, and easier.
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