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  2. Timeline of web search engines - Wikipedia

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    New search engine: Yahoo! Search is launched. It is a search function that allows users to search Yahoo! Directory. It becomes the first popular search engine on the Web. However, it is not a true Web crawler search engine. New search engine: Search.ch is launched. It is a search engine and web portal for Switzerland. New web directory

  3. 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."

  4. Timeline of Google Search - Wikipedia

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    Development. 1996–1997. Development of basic technology, launch of search engine, attachments like gmail and classroom come later. 2000. Internationalization: search is launched in 13 new languages. 2001–2004. Google launches many new search categories, such as Google News, Google Books, and Google Scholar . 2002 onward.

  5. History of Google - Wikipedia

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    History of Google. Google was officially launched in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin to market Google Search, which has become the most used web-based search engine. Larry Page and Sergey Brin, students at Stanford University in California, developed a search algorithm first (1996) known as "BackRub", with the help of Scott Hassan and Alan ...

  6. Google's AI search overhaul raises 'more questions than ... - AOL

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    At least for now, AI Overviews offer a spruced-up version of search advertising. Echoing Google’s earlier move to place ads at the top of search results, selling prime digital real estate, the ...

  7. Google Search - Wikipedia

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    C++ [2] Google Search (also known simply as Google or Google.com) is a search engine operated by Google. It allows users to search for information on the Internet by entering keywords or phrases. Google Search uses algorithms to analyze and rank websites based on their relevance to the search query. It is the most popular search engine worldwide.

  8. List of search engines - Wikipedia

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    Desktop search product with Outlook plugin and limited support for other formats via IFilters, uses Lucene search engine. Proprietary (14-day trial) Nepomuk: Linux: Open-source semantic desktop search tool for Linux. Has been replaced by Baloo in KDE Applications from release 4.13 onward. License SA 3.0 and the GNU Free Documentation License 1. ...

  9. List of Google products - Wikipedia

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    Google Gesture Search - Gesture search is a software that draws letters composed of the name of a program, contact or setting, it can find the latter; Google Nexus – Smartphone lineup, replaced by Google Pixel on October 4. Trendalyzer – data trend viewing platform. Discontinued in September.