internet searches

Computer Applications I

4th Block

Founders: Larry Page and Sergey Brin

Date of Start: January 1996

Reason: Larry’s supervisor encouraged him to create a web page that had links to other web pages.

Founders: Jerry Yang and David Filo

Date of Start: 1994

Reason: They wanted to create a search engine

A meta search is a search tool that sends user requests to several other search engines and/or databases

A Boolean search allows you to narrow down your search by using special terms before your keywords.

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You can use Google for many types of search like

ImagesVideosMapsNewsBooks

Google makes money from companies posting ads on their high volume visited pages

Web browser is a software application which enables a user to display and interact with text, images, videos, music, games and other information typically located on a Web page at a Web site on the World Wide Web or a local area network.

Like internet explorer, Firefox, opera, safari

It is called chromePrivate browsingThumbnails of your top sitesSearch from the address bar