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  2. Yahoo! Search - Wikipedia

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    Yahoo! Search is a search engine owned and operated by Yahoo!, using Microsoft Bing to power results. Originally, "Yahoo! Search" referred to a Yahoo!-provided interface that sent queries to a searchable index of pages supplemented with its directory of websites. The results were presented to the user under the Yahoo! brand.

  3. History of Yahoo! - Wikipedia

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    History of Yahoo! Yahoo! started at Stanford University. [1] It was founded in January 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo, who were electrical engineering graduates when they created a website named "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web". The Guide was a directory of other websites, organized in a hierarchy, as opposed to a searchable ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. 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

  6. AOL Search FAQs - AOL Help

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    AOL Search provides extensive search results along with convenient one-click access to relevant web content, including web results, images, videos, maps, and more. It offers a complete search experience by delivering a diverse range of results in a single search, eliminating the need for additional search queries.

  7. AltaVista - Wikipedia

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    Yahoo! Inc. (2017–present) AltaVista was a Web search engine established in 1995. It became one of the most-used early search engines, but lost ground to Google and was purchased by Yahoo! in 2003, which retained the brand, but based all AltaVista searches on its own search engine.

  8. Metasearch engine - Wikipedia

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    Metasearch engine. A metasearch engine (or search aggregator) is an online information retrieval tool that uses the data of a web search engine to produce its own results. [1] [2] Metasearch engines take input from a user and immediately query search engines [3] for results. Sufficient data is gathered, ranked, and presented to the users.

  9. DuckDuckGo CEO says Google's billions got in the way of a ...

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    WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The CEO of privacy-oriented search engine DuckDuckGo said its talks with Apple about a potential contract failed because the smartphone maker was reluctant to give up Google ...