Web Search Engines

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This Presentation is about
Web SEARCH ENGINES
Presentation will clear What is Web Search
Engines History of Web Search Engines Most
Popular Web Search Engines Brief View of Top 5
Web Search Engines.
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What is
WEB SEARCH ENGINES

• Web Search Engines are the key to finding
  specific information on the
• World Wide Web. Without Web Search Engines,
• it would be virtually impossible to locate
  anything on the Web
• without knowing a specific URL.

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History of Web Search Engines

• First Web Search Engines was introduce in
  September 2, 1993 which Name was W3Catalog.
• WebCrawler was the first Web Search Engine to
  provide full text search. It went live on April
  20, 1994 and was created by Brian Pinkerton at
  the University of Washington.
• Soon after, many search engines appeared and vied
  for popularity. These included Magellan, Excite,
  Info seek, Inktomi, Northern Light, AltaVista and
  Yahoo.
• Around 2000, Google's search engine rose to
  prominence.
• By 2000, Yahoo! was providing search services
  based on Inktomi's search engine.
• Microsoft first launched MSN Search in the fall
  of 1998 using search results from Inktomi. In
  2004, Microsoft began a transition to its own
  search technology, powered by its own web crawler
  (called msnbot).
• Microsoft's rebranded search engine, Bing, was
  launched on June 1, 2009. On July 29, 2009,
  Yahoo! and Microsoft finalized a deal in which
  Yahoo! Search would be powered by Microsoft Bing
  technology.

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Most Popular WEB SEARCH ENGINES
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• Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ YHOO) is an American
  multinational internet
• corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale,
  California, United States.
• The company is perhaps best known for its web
  portal, search engine
• (Yahoo! Search), Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail,
  Yahoo! News, Yahoo!
• Finance, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Answers,
  advertising, online mapping,
• video sharing, fantasy sports and social media
  website and services. It is
• one of the largest websites in the United States.
  According to news
• sources, roughly 700 million people visit Yahoo!
  websites every month.
• Yahoo! itself claims it attracts "more than half
  a billion consumers
• every month in more than 30 languages."
• Monthly Visitors 160,000,000 - Estimated Unique
  Monthly Visitors

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• Bing (formerly Live Search, Windows Live Search,
  and MSN Search) is a
• web search engine (advertised as a "decision
  engine"2) from Microsoft.
• Bing was unveiled by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer
  on May 28, 2009 at the
• All Things Digital conference in San Diego. It
  went fully online on June 3,
• 2009,3 with a preview version released on June
  1, 2009.
• Monthly Visitors 165,000,000 - Estimated Unique
  Monthly Visitors

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• Google Search (or Google Web Search) is a web
  search engine owned by
• Google Inc. Google Search is the most-used search
  engine on the World Wide
• Web,3 receiving several hundred million queries
  each day through its
• various services. Google Search was originally
  developed by Larry Page
• and Sergey Brin in 1997. Google Search provides
  at least 22 special features
• beyond the original word-search capability.7
  These include synonyms,
• weather forecasts, time zones, stock quotes,
  maps, earthquake data,
• movie show times, airports, home listings, and
  sports scores.
• Monthly Visitors 900,000,000 - Estimated
  Unique Monthly Visitors

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