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Quiz
- Which Microsoft rebranded search engine, was launched on June 1, 2009?
- Which Web search engine established in 1995 got its name from the Spanish words for "high view"?
- The first popular search engine was a product of which company founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo?
- Can you name either of the American computer scientists that founded Google in 1998?
- Google was founded by two PhD students at which Californian university?
- Google achieved better results for many searches with a PR algorithm. What does PR stand for?
- Founded in 1996, what was Ask.com originally known as?
- Which search engine and web portal established in 1994 has a name which is short for the Latin word meaning "wolf spider"?
- You can search the web directly from the address bar of Firefox, which is a free and open-source web browser developed by which foundation?
- A URL is a specific type of web address. What does URL stand for?
- Which search engine with a funny name based on a traditional children's game, was launched by Gabriel Weinberg in 2008?
- What is China's largest and most widely used search engine?
- What word means the discovery process in which search engines send out robots to find new and updated content?
- When it comes to search engine results, what does the acronym CTR mean?
- Which metasearch engine launched its "Search and Rescue" program in 2008, which donates money to animal-related charities?
Answers
- Bing
- AltaVista
- Yahoo!
- Larry Page and/or Sergey Brin
- Stanford University
- PageRank
- Ask Jeeves
- Lycos (short for "Lycosidae")
- The Mozilla Foundation
- Uniform Resource Locator
- DuckDuckGo
- Baidu
- Crawling
- Click Through Rate
- Dogpile