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On November 30, 2008, Microsoft offered to buy Yahoo!'s search business for $20 billion. [71] On July 29, 2009, a 10-year deal was announced giving Microsoft full access to Yahoo!'s search engine to be used in future Microsoft projects in its Bing search engine. [72] Under the deal, Microsoft was not required to pay any cash up front to Yahoo!.
Learn about the history of web search engines from 1982 to 2020, starting with the first pre-web domain search engine WHOis and the first web search engine W3Catalog. See how web search engines evolved from using crawlers, indexers, and directories to natural language queries and personalization.
A chronological list of events of Yahoo!, an American web services provider founded in 1994. See the milestones of its history, from its early days as a web directory to its acquisitions, partnerships, controversies and challenges.
Learn how Google, the most used web-based search engine, was created by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1996. The name Google is a misspelling of Googol, the number 1 followed by 100 zeros, which was picked to signify that the search engine was intended to provide large quantities of information.
Learn about Yahoo Search, a web search engine owned by Yahoo and powered by Microsoft Bing. Find out how it evolved from a directory to a crawler, and what languages and features it offers worldwide.
Yahoo is an American web services provider that offers a web portal, search engine, email, news, finance, sports and more. Learn about its founding, expansion, acquisitions, rejections, controversies and current status.
Learn about the key events in the history of Google's search service, from its launch in 1997 to its latest updates in 2019. The timeline covers the development, internationalization, categories, algorithm changes, and features of Google Search.
A search engine is a software system that provides hyperlinks to web pages and other relevant information on the Web in response to a user's query. Learn about the origins, development and features of search engines, from Archie to Google, and see a timeline of major engines.