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  2. MSN - Wikipedia

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    MSN. MSN (meaning Microsoft Network) is an American web portal and related collection of Internet services and apps for Windows and mobile devices, provided by Microsoft and launched on August 24, 1995, alongside the release of Windows 95. [2] The Microsoft Network was initially a subscription-based dial-up online service that later became an ...

  3. List of search engines - Wikipedia

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    Search engines, including web search engines, selection-based search engines, metasearch engines, desktop search tools, and web portals and vertical market websites have a search facility for online databases.

  4. Timeline of web search engines - Wikipedia

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    This page provides a full timeline of web search engines, starting from the WHOis in 1982, the Archie search engine in 1990, and subsequent developments in the field. It is complementary to the history of web search engines page that provides more qualitative detail on the history.

  5. Excite (web portal) - Wikipedia

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    Excite. Active but not updated since 2021 (As of 2024, all of Excite's operations are controlled by services outside of the business.) Excite is an American website (historically a web portal) operated by IAC that provides outsourced internet content such as a metasearch engine, with outsourced weather and news content on the main page. As of ...

  6. History of the World Wide Web - Wikipedia

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    Category. The World Wide Web ("WWW", "W3" or simply "the Web") is a global information medium that users can access via computers connected to the Internet. The term is often mistakenly used as a synonym for the Internet, but the Web is a service that operates over the Internet, just as email and Usenet do.

  7. AOL - Wikipedia

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    AOL. Yahoo! Inc. (2021–present) AOL (stylized as Aol., formerly a company known as AOL Inc. and originally known as America Online [1]) is an American web portal and online service provider based in New York City, and a brand marketed by Yahoo! Inc. The service traces its history to an online service known as PlayNET.

  8. Social search - Wikipedia

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    Social search is a behavior of retrieving and searching on a social searching engine that mainly searches user-generated content such as news, videos and images related search queries on social media like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram and Flickr. [1] It is an enhanced version of web search that combines traditional algorithms.

  9. Web 2.0 - Wikipedia

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    Some Web 2.0 capabilities were present in the days of Web 1.0, but were implemented differently. For example, a Web 1.0 site may have had a guestbook page for visitor comments, instead of a comment section at the end of each page (typical of Web 2.0). During Web 1.0, server performance and bandwidth had to be considered—lengthy comment ...