practical use of the internet by jeremy viegas. a search engine is like a big directory giving you...
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Practical Use of the Internet
By Jeremy Viegas
A Search Engine is like a Big Directory giving you links to websites on the internet
computer program that searches a computer program that searches for specific words and returns a list of documents in which they were found, especially a commercial Internet service
Search Engine, software program that helps users find information stored on a personal computer, or a network of computers, such as the Internet. A user enters search terms, typically by typing a keyword or phrase, and the search engine retrieves a list of World Wide Web (WWW) sites, personal computer files, or documents, either by scanning the content stored on the computers or computer networks being searched or by parsing (analyzing) an index of their stored data. Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2008. © 1993-2007 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Leading Search Engines1) Google.com2) MSN.com3) Yahoo.com4) ASK.com
You Should Not Pass off work as your own!!
Many websites copyright what they state on their websites and don't want you to copy it andtake credit for it if you do this and claim it isyour own the person or company thatCopyrighted it first could take you to court.You can always have a acknowledgements pagelisting where you have got your resources from.
Search EngineWhat I searched for
My Results
Firefox originates from Netscape AKA AOL.
Firefox
The Firefox founders are Blake Ross and Joe Hewitt, The Mozilla Project originates from the AOL (America
online company) Netscape where the open source project was formed in February 1998
• The source code to Netscape Communicator was released on March 31, 1998.
• Mozilla Foundation was founded in July 2003 to guide and foster the various Mozilla projects
• Mozilla Corporation was formed in August 2005, as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation to develop, market and distribute Mozilla products
What is the main purpose of this project?
The Mozilla Public License (MPL) is an open source and free software license. Version 1.0 was developed by Mitchell Baker when she worked as a lawyer at Netscape Communications Corporation and version 1.1 at the Mozilla Foundation.[1] The MPL is characterized as a hybridization of the modified BSD license and GNU General Public License.The MPL is the license for the Mozilla Application Suite, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird and other Mozilla software. Adobe has announced it will use MPL to licence its Flex product line by the end of 2007. The MPL has been adapted by others as a license for their software, most notably Sun Microsystems, as the Common Development and Distribution License for Open Solaris, the open source version of the Solaris 10 operating system.
Mozilla Public License
By the NumbersNumber of contributors worldwide: More than 800 code contributors and thousands of testers, designers, writers, and moreNumber of languages currently supported: More than 35Number of Mozilla affiliates worldwide: 3; Mozilla Europe, Mozilla Japan, Mozilla China
http://www.mozilla.org/reorganization/
Karim Lakhani, Open Source Researcher, MITTristan Nitot, President, Mozilla EuropeJoichi Ito, Board Member, Mozilla FoundationChris Blizzard, Board Member, Mozilla Corporation
Mitchell Baker, President, Mozilla Corporation and Board Member, Mozilla FoundationFrank Hecker, Director of Policy, Mozilla Foundation
Competitors
Internet ExplorerAOLBT internet