The
Google name was chosen to represent the gigantic amount of material
available on the Web. It comes from "googol;" the number
1 followed by 100 zeros. The name is also used as a verb; for example,
"to Google something" means to search the Web for it.
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Popular
metasearch site owned by InfoSpace that sends a search to a multiple
list of search engines, directories and specialty search sites,
then displays results from each search engine individually. |
Launched
in 1994, Yahoo is the web's oldest "directory," a place
where human editors organize web sites into categories. However,
in October 2002, Yahoo made a giant shift to crawler-based listings
for its main results. |
Originally
called Ask Jeeves, it initially gained fame in 1998 and 1999 as
being the "natural language" search engine that let you
search by asking questions and responded with what seemed to be
the right answer to everything. Today, Ask Jeeves instead depends
on crawler-based technology to provide results to its users. |
