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  2. History of Yahoo! - Wikipedia

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    Early history (1994–1996) Upon the April 1994 renaming of Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web to Yahoo!, Yang and Filo said that "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle" was a suitable backronym for this name, but they insisted they had selected the name because they liked the word's general definition, as in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth."

  3. Search engine - Wikipedia

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    Some engines suggest queries when the user is typing in the search box. A search engine is a software system that provides hyperlinks to web pages and other relevant information on the Web in response to a user's query. The user inputs a query within a web browser or a mobile app, and the search results are often a list of hyperlinks ...

  4. Yahoo! - Wikipedia

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    Like many search engines and web directories, Yahoo added a web portal, putting it in competition with services including Excite, Lycos, and America Online. By 1998, Yahoo was the most popular starting point for web users, [27] and the human-edited Yahoo Directory the most popular search engine, [15] receiving 95 million page views per day ...

  5. Google China - Wikipedia

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    Gǔgē. Google China is a subsidiary of Google. Once a popular search engine, most services offered by Google China were blocked by the Great Firewall in the People's Republic of China. In 2010, searching via all Google search sites, including Google Mobile, was moved from mainland China to Hong Kong .

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  7. Search engine marketing in China - Wikipedia

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    Search engine marketing in China. As of 2010, the largest internet enterprises in China were Baidu, Tencent, and Alibaba followed by Soso, Sogou, Bing, and Yahoo. In March 2010, Google which had been in the list from 2000, was forced to pull out from China because of a heated dispute with the Chinese Government regarding the censoring of search ...

  8. Google, Baidu, Yahoo!, Yandex, and Microsoft Search for Growth

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    Google -- 114.73 billion search queries. Baidu -- 14.5 billion. Yahoo! -- 8.63 billion. Yandex -- 4.844 billion. Microsoft -- 4.477 billion. Searching for clues. Baidu is China's leading player ...

  9. The CEO leading ‘Korea’s Google’ in its battle against Big Tech

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    Google launched a bare-bones search engine in Korean in 2000, but it didn’t catch on. Google updated its site to a feature-rich format six years later. Naver earned 9.6 trillion won ($7.41 ...