Introduction to search engine
The search engine is software accessed on the internet that searches a database of information according to the user query . The engine provides a list of results that best match what the user is trying to find. Today, there are many different search engines available on the the internet,each with this own abilities and features . the first search engine ever developed is considered Archie, which was used to search for FTP files, and the first text - based search engine is considered Veronica. Currently the popular and well-known search engine is Google. other popular search engine include AOL, ASK.com , Baidu, Bing , Duck Duck Go, and Yahoo.
Introduction to Google
Google was founded on 4 September 1998 by Larry page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.d . student at stand ford university in California. Together they own about 14% of its publicly - listed shares and control 56% of the stockholder voting power through super - voting stock. the company went public via control and initial public offering ( IPO) in 2004 . In 2015 , Google was reorganized as a wholly - owned subsidiary of alphabet inc . Google is Alphabet's largest subsidiary and is a holding company for alphabet's internet properties and interests. Sunar pichai was appointed CEO of Google on octorber 24 , 2015 , replacing Larry page, who became the CEO of Alphabet On December 3, 2018 . Pichai also became the CEO of Alphabet.
Introduction to Bing
Bing was launched in 2009 by Microsoft corporation an american software company.
Microsoft 's previous search engine, Live search , from the time of its release in 2006 consistently trailed well behind those of Google Inc. , the industry giant and the internet portal site of Yahoo! Inc Microsoft hoped to change the dynamics of the search - engine market with the release of Bing, a decision engine designed to display more retrieved information in search pages than was typical , thus enabling better- informed decisions concerning what links to follow or even, in some cases , displaying enough information to satisfy the original query . Bing also displayed .related searches and the user's previous searches on the left side of the page.
In July 2009 an agreement was reached in which Yahoo! would use bing to power search on its portal site and would provide the sales force to work with companies that sought to do special campaigns on bing. the Microsoft - yahoo arrangement was scheduled to last for 10 years and bing largely powered yahoo ! search across the globe from 2012. in February 2010 the social networking site Facebook- which had more than 400 million users and was the second most- visited web site after Google - made an agreement with Microsoft to present bing result to users searching the World wide web from within face book. Although bing markets's share is initially somewhat slow to gain on that of Google or Yahoo !
The search engine eventually became the second largest in the United states .
However Google remained dominant search engine
with bing drawing only of few percent of market.
3. Introduction to Yahoo !
yahoo is an american web server providers. It is headquartered in Sunnyvale , California and operated by namesake company Yahoo ! Inc., which is 90 % owned by investment funds
managed by Apollo global management and 10 % by Verizon Communication
it provides web portal , Search engine Yahoo search and related services, including My Yahoo , Yahoo mail , Yahoo news.
Yahoo finance Yahoo sports and its adverting platform . Yahoo native .
yahoo was established by Jerry yang and David filo and in January 1994 and was one of the pioneers of the early internet era in 1990s. However , usage declined in the late 2000s as it lost market share to Facebook Groups and Google
Introduction to Baidu search engine
Baidu is China's leading search engine - you can think of it as China Google and While Google has a global presence and can be accessed by Chinese users ( to a degree ) , Baidu is the go - to search engine of the choice there .
interested in Baidu ? Check out the website here.
For users and English Speakers, know this : while Baidu will load in Mandarin at first , you can easily change its settings to navigate it in English.
Baidu is China's leading search engine - you can think of it as china'
Introduction to Yandex
Yandex is a search engine and web portal. it is owned by Yandex based in Russia.
In January 2015. Yandex search generated 51. 2% of all of the search traffic in Russia according to live internet.
The search technology provides local search results in more than 1, 400 cities. Yandex search also features " parallel" search that presents results from both main web index and specialized information resource. including news , shopping , blogs images and videos on a single page.
Yandex search is responsive to real - time queries , recognizing when a query requires the most current information, such as breaking news or the most recent post on twitter on a particular topic. it also contains results) spell checker, auto complete which suggests queries as you type antivirus that detects malware of web pages and so on .
In May 2010 , Yandex launched Yandex .com a platform for beta testing and improving non- Russian language search.
The search product can be accessed from personal computers, mobile phones, tablets and other digital devices. In addition to web search , Yandex provides a wide range of specialized search services.
In 2009 Yandex launched matrix Net . a new method of machine learning that significantly improves the relevance of search results. it allows the yandex search engine to take into account a very large number of factors when it makes the decision about relevancy of search results.
With the first releases on July 21 , 2017 , Brave web browser features Yandex as one of its default search engines.
Introduction to Duck Duck Go
Duck Duck Go ( also abbreviated as DDG ) is an internet search engine that emphasizes protecting searchers' privacy and avoiding the filter bubble of personalized search results.
Duck Duck Go does not show search results from content farms. it use various APIs s of the other websites to show quick results to queries and for traditional links it use the help of its partners ( mainly Bing) and its own crawler.
The company is based in Paoli, Pennsylvania , in Greater Philadelphia and had 149 employees as of October 2021 . The company name is a reference to the children's game Duck , Duck , Goose.
Introduction to Ask.com
Ask is the common name for the Ask.com search engine, which allows users to perform a search in the form of a question to find relevant results.
Ask.com ( Originally ask Jeeves ) was started in 1996 by Garret Gruener and David Warthen. They felt that users approach a search by asking a question, rather than searching for a single word or several words.
The site is popular with internet users, despite competition from other search engines like Google , Bing and Yahoo!
Ask tool bar many users are introduced to ask through their Ask toolbar
that is added with many free add-ons like Janva. I f you leave the check box checked to install this
Toolbar, it appears in your browser then next
time it is opened . To uninstall the ask Toolbar, remove ti through add/ remove programs in
In the above Picture, the program gives a " Recommend Offer" to set Ask as the Default search
provider . which means the default search engine becomes ask . Next it want ask.com to set as your homepage and new tabs pages.
And both of these check boxes are checked by default.
Why does Ask always want to install on my computer?
One method of keeping software programs free, but
allowing a developer to make some money from a program is to give offers like ask tool bar.
by including these offers in their program. and developer is paid by company .
Introduction to Ecosia
Ecosia , quite simply, is a search engine that plants trees while you search the web.
They use the profit made from the searches to plant trees all over the world - Particularly in Haiti , Brazil , Peru , Indonesia , Spain, Kenya, Ghana and more.
Whoa, What ? seriously ?
I know , right ? I have considered myself a pretty savvy person in the sustainability world and I am a digital native ( aka a millennial/ Echo boomer). But Escosia has only really started gaining traction and we want to help spread the word !
Ecosia was started in 2009 in Berlin , Germany after the founder saw the problems of deforestation around the globe.
they then became Germany's first B corporation In 2014 (Plaine products is proud to have been a B Corp since January, 2018 ) To date , Ecosia reached a milestone of planting 86 million threes and built its own solar energy plant to power every single search .
AOL Search Engine Introduction
AOL short for America online was founded in 1985. AOL
was not only a search engine but also a Internet Service Provider. In the mid 1990s people thought AOL was " the internet ", at the end 1996 they had more than 15 millions subscribers (counting 1 million outside the US).
For the one who used aol internet service provider, let's remember how painful it was to cancel an account because of their policies and personnel that doesn't want to listen to us, let's also remember how their software AOL (launched in 1991) didn't help users if they wanted to connect their modems to another internet service provider.
News reports in the fall of 2005 indicated an interest in buying out AOL. Suitors such as Microsoft, Google, Yahoo and Comcast have had discussions with Time Warner (AOL) about a possible purchase, and on December 16, 2005, Time Warner and Google announced that they were starting exclusive talks for Google to purchase $1 billion in AOL stock, a 5% share.
In gross, AOL is shrinking. Besides i find it funny that AOL created a page dedicated about AOL History on Internet. If you check this web page you will notice a long list of events. It's the only search engine to have such long history, even Google History which is a long list doesn't have one long like that.
Introduction to Internet Archive
The internet Archive was established in 1996 with the aim
of maintaining a historical record of the World Wide Web. Its goal is to preserve human knowledge and culture by creating an Internet library for researchers, historians, and scholars. By 2003, its total collection was around 100 terabytes, growing by 12 terabytes per month; today it includes more than 40 billion web pages and occupies a petabyte of storage, growing by 20 terabytes per month.
The Internet Archive is deeply involved in digitization initiatives and now provides storage for the Million Book Project. On April 23, 2002, UNESCO's International Day of the Book, a partnership was announced with Bibliotheca Alexandrina, an Egyptian institution that has established a great library near the site of the original Library of Alexandria. A copy of the entire Internet Archive is now held there—including the Million Book Project.
In December 2004, the Internet Archive announced a new collaboration with several international libraries to put digitized books into open-access archives. At that time, their text archive contained 27,000 books, and a million books had already been committed. This collaboration includes Carnegie Mellon University and subsumes the Million Book Project. It includes some of the original partners in India and China, as well as the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt and new partners in Canada and the Netherlands.
The Internet Archive does not target commercially successful books—ones that are available in bookstores. But neither does it want to restrict scope to the public domain. It has its eye on what are often called “orphan” works—ones that are still in copyright but not commercially viable—and is taking legal action in an attempt to obtain permission to include such books. In 2004, it filed a suit against the U.S. Attorney General claiming that statutes that extend copyright terms unconditionally—like the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act discussed in Chapter 6—are unconstitutional under the free speech clause of the First Amendment. It is requesting a judgment that copyright restrictions on works that are no longer available violate the U.S. Constitution. The U.S. District Court dismissed the case, but the ruling has been appealed.
