Internet Search
- 1. INTERNET SEARCH By: Sarah Shannon
- 2. Google was co-founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were students at Stanford University and the company was first incorporated as a privately held company on September 4, 1998. The initial public offering took place on August 19, 2004, raising US$1.67 billion, making it worth US$23 billion.
- 3. Yahoo began as a student hobby and evolved into a global brand that has changed the way people communicate with each other, find and access information and purchase things. The two founders of Yahoo!, David Filo and Jerry Yang, Ph.D. candidates in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, started their guide in a campus trailer in February 1994 as a way to keep track of their personal interests on the Internet.
- 4. META SEARCH A meta-search engine is a search tool that sends user requests to several other search engines and/or databases and aggregates the results into a single list or displays them according to their source. Metasearch engines enable users to enter search criteria once and access several search engines simultaneously
- 5. BOOLEAN SEARCH Uses operators with keywords to narrow search parameters Narrows results by searching for pages that contain both keywords
- 6. SEARCHING Boolean Search Custom Search Traditional Search Field Searching Character Searching Number Searching
- 7. MONEY You type in your query, hit enter and then find your results without making any payment. The oft-overlooked money-making machine for Google is advertising, which allows Google to make its profits off its sites and other sites that participate in Google's advertising schemes. Also using Sponsored links
- 8. WEB BROWSERS A web browser is when you type in your query, hit enter and then find your results without making any payment. The oft-overlooked money-making machine for Google is advertising, which allows Google to make its profits off its sites and other sites that participate in Google's advertising schemes. AOL, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari
- 9. BROWSER Chrome The browser will include a JavaScript Virtual Machine called V8 Google Chrome will use special tabs As a default homepage Chrome presents you with a kind of “speed dial” feature, similar to the one of Opera