History of Search Engines

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What was the name of the program written by Ellen Temptation in 1990 that downloaded all the file listings from popular servers onto his university's local computer?

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Archie

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What was the primary task of the World Wide Web virtual library created by Tim Berners-Lee and a team of other expert volunteers in 1991?

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To measure the growth of the web

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Which search engine was considered the first web crawler, a program that discovers and indexes new web pages?

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Jump Station

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What was the significant feature of Alta Vista that made it a major selling point after its public launch in 1995?

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It contained a full text index of the 500 gigabytes of webpages it crawled.

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What was the primary task of Yahoo's hierarchical directory of web pages when it started out?

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To manually build a list of favorite web sites

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What was the original name of Ask.com before it was known as Ask Jeeves?

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Ask Jeeves

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What algorithm developed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin determined the importance of web pages by analyzing how many times a page was linked to by others?

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PageRank

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What was the major advantage of Google's PageRank algorithm over other search engines of its time?

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It was resilient to spamming

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What event allowed Google to take over the search engine market after its introduction in 1998? Options: The development of the first web crawler, The creation of the World Wide Web virtual library, The introduction of targeted ads based on user search habits, The dot-com bubble nearing its peak

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The dot-com bubble nearing its peak

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What is the estimated number of requests served by Google per day?

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3.5 billion