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Yebol. Yebol (Wikipedia) Yebol was a vertical "decision" search engine that had developed a knowledge-based, semantic search platform.

Yebol (Wikipedia)

Based in San Jose, CA, Yebol's artificial intelligence human intelligence-infused algorithms automatically cluster and categorize search results, web sites, pages and contents that it presents in a visually indexed format that is more aligned with initial human intent. Yebol used association, ranking and clustering algorithms to analyze related keywords or web pages. Yebol presented as one of its goals the creation of a unique "homepage look" for every possible search term.

Features[edit] Technology[edit] The Yebol Beta logo used until 2010 Yebol also integrated human labeled information into its multilayer perceptron and information retrieval algorithms. Notes[edit] External links[edit] Official website. MSN. MSN (Wikipedia) MSN (originally The Microsoft Network; stylized as msn) is a collection of Internet websites and services provided by Microsoft.

MSN (Wikipedia)

The Microsoft Network debuted as an online service and Internet service provider on August 24, 1995, to coincide with the release of the Windows 95 operating system.[2][unreliable source?] The range of services offered by MSN has changed since its initial release in 1995. MSN was once a simple online service for Windows 95, an early experiment at interactive multimedia content on the Internet, and one of the most popular dial-up Internet service providers. MSN was primarily a popular Internet portal.

Microsoft used the MSN brand name to promote numerous popular web-based services in the late 1990s, most notably Hotmail and Microsoft Messenger service, before reorganizing many of them in 2005 under another brand name, Windows Live. Yahoo! Yahoo! (Wikipedia) Yahoo!

Yahoo! (Wikipedia)

Inc. is an American multinational Internet corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. It is globally known for its Web portal, search engine Yahoo Search, and related services, including Yahoo Directory, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Groups, Yahoo Answers, advertising, online mapping, video sharing, fantasy sports and its social media website. It is one of the most popular sites in the United States.[2] According to news sources, roughly 700 million people visit Yahoo websites every month.[3][4] Yahoo itself claims it attracts "more than half a billion consumers every month in more than 30 languages. "[5] According to comScore, Yahoo during July 2013 surpassed Google on the number of United States visitors to its Web sites for the first time since May 2011, set at 196 million United States visitors, having increased by 21 percent in a year.[7] History and growth Jerry Yang and David Filo, the founders of Yahoo Yahoo grew rapidly throughout the 1990s.

Content Y! Bing. Bing (Wikipedia) Bing (known previously as Live Search, Windows Live Search, and MSN Search) is a web search engine (advertised as a "decision engine"[2]) from Microsoft.

Bing (Wikipedia)

On July 29, 2009, Microsoft and Yahoo! Announced a deal in which Bing would power Yahoo! Search.[6] All Yahoo! Search global customers and partners were expected to have made the transition by early 2012.[7] History. Ask Jeeves. Ask Jeeves (Wikipedia) An Ask.com search of Wikipedia Ask.com (originally known as Ask Jeeves) is a question answering-focused web search engine founded in 1996 by Garrett Gruener and David Warthen in Berkeley, California.

Ask Jeeves (Wikipedia)

The original software was implemented by Gary Chevsky from his own design. Warthen, Chevsky, Justin Grant, and others built the early AskJeeves.com website around that core engine. In late 2010, facing insurmountable competition from Google, the company outsourced its web search technology and returned to its roots as a question and answer site.[2] Douglas Leeds was elevated from president to CEO in 2010.[3] Ask.com is noted and most infamous for a malware toolbar that can be surreptitiously bundled in with legitimate program installations, and which generally cannot be removed from most common browsers once installed.[4][5][6] Google. Google (Wikipedia)

Google is an American multinational corporation specializing in Internet-related services and products.

Google (Wikipedia)

These include online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, and software.[8] Most of its profits are derived from AdWords,[9][10] an online advertising service that places advertising near the list of search results. Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. Together they own about 14 percent of its shares but control 56 percent of the stockholder voting power through supervoting stock. They incorporated Google as a privately held company on September 4, 1998. An initial public offering followed on August 19, 2004. History Google's original homepage had a simple design because the company founders were not experienced in HTML, the markup language used for designing web pages.[29] The domain name for Google was registered on September 15, 1997,[46] and the company was incorporated on September 4, 1998.

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