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  2. WikiLeaks - Wikipedia

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    WikiLeaks ( / ˈwɪkiliːks /) is a media organisation and publisher of leaked documents. It is a non-profit and is funded by donations [13] and media partnerships. It has published classified documents and other media provided by anonymous sources. [14] It was founded in 2006 by Julian Assange, an Australian editor, publisher, and activist ...

  3. History of the World Wide Web - Wikipedia

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    In January 1994, Yahoo! was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo, then students at Stanford University. Yahoo! Directory became the first popular web directory. Yahoo! Search, launched the same year, was the first popular search engine on the World Wide Web. Yahoo! became the quintessential example of a first mover on the Web.

  4. Panama Canal - Wikipedia

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    Location of Panama between the Pacific Ocean (bottom) and the Caribbean Sea (top), with the canal at top center. The Panama Canal (Spanish: Canal de Panamá) is an artificial 82-kilometre (51-mile) waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean, cutting across the Isthmus of Panama, and is a conduit for maritime ...

  5. List of Yahoo!-owned sites and services - Wikipedia

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    Jumpcut.com - A service where the uploaded photos and videos can be edited online; shut down in June 2009. [43] Kelkoo Group - A European price comparison tool that was acquired by Yahoo! in 2004 and sold in 2008. [44] [45] Yahoo! Korea was the South Korean affiliate of Yahoo!, founded in September 1997.

  6. History of Google - Wikipedia

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    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 Steremberg.

  7. Anonymous (hacker group) - Wikipedia

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    It is a crowd of people, a nebulous crowd of people, working together and doing things together for various purposes." The group's few rules include not disclosing one's identity, not talking about the group, and not attacking media. Members commonly use the tagline "We are Anonymous. We are Legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget.

  8. Yahoo! Inc. (1995–2017) - Wikipedia

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    Inc. [3] was an American multinational technology company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. Yahoo was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 2, 1995. [4] [5] Yahoo was one of the pioneers of the early internet era in the 1990s. [6] Marissa Mayer, a former Google executive, served as CEO and ...

  9. Facebook - Wikipedia

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    Facebook enables users to control access to individual posts and their profile [320] through privacy settings. [321] The user's name and profile picture (if applicable) are public. Facebook's revenue depends on targeted advertising, which involves analyzing user data to decide which ads to show each user.