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  2. 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.

  3. Microsoft Advertising - Wikipedia

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    Microsoft Advertising (formerly Bing Ads) is an online advertising platform developed by Microsoft, where advertisers bid to display brief ads, service offers, product listings and videos to web users. It provides pay per click advertising on search engines Bing, Yahoo! and DuckDuckGo, as well as on other websites, mobile apps, and videos.

  4. Timeline of Yahoo! - Wikipedia

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    March 1, 2004: Yahoo announces that it will practice paid inclusion for its search service; however, it also announced that it would continue to rely mainly on a free web crawl for most of its search engine content. March 25, 2004: Yahoo acquires the European shopping search engine Kelkoo. July 9, 2004: Yahoo acquires email provider Oddpost.

  5. Search syndication - Wikipedia

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    Search syndication. Search syndication is a type of contextual advertising which allows online search advertisers to buy keyword-targeted traffic outside of search engine results pages. [1] This is considered to be an alternative to advertising on search engines, since 43% of all searches occur outside of the top search engines.

  6. Yahoo! Maps - Wikipedia

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    Maps. Yahoo! Maps. Yahoo! Yahoo! Maps was a free online mapping portal provided by Yahoo! [3] Functionality included local weather powered by The Weather Channel, printing maps, and local reviews powered by Yelp. [citation needed] It shut down on June 30, 2015. For a time in 2019, Yahoo!

  7. 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 Has been replaced by Baloo in KDE Applications from release 4.13 onward.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. ...

  8. 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 ...

  9. List of mergers and acquisitions by Yahoo! - Wikipedia

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    List of mergers and acquisitions by Yahoo! Yahoo! is a computer software and web search engine company founded on March 1, 1995. [1] The company is a public corporation and its headquarters is located in Sunnyvale, California. [2] It was founded by Stanford University graduate students Jerry Yang and David Filo in 1994. [3]