- Without search engines like Yahoo and Google, what would your web experience be like?
- Describe how search engines work.
- How did Yahoo begin?
- What is the role of advertising on the web? Why was advertising so controversial?
- What made Google different then other search engines? What helped Google become so powerful/profitable?
Monday, January 4, 2010
Download - Episode 2 - Search
Based on "Search," Episode 2 of the series Download: The True Story of the Internet, answer the following questions:
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1. It would be severely lacking the inforamtion expirience.
ReplyDelete2. They search for matches in the internet, and turn up the closet matches to what you searched for.
3. By two students searching for basketball information.
4. To get more results, as more people used the internet, more ad opprotunities crop up. Ads are controversial because it can send you anywhere.
5. Google had the edge, and the ambition. Google got the right hand, and played the royal flush.
1). well first of all without search engines like yahoo and google people would not easily be able to find what their looking for so then companys that use the search engines to advritize their products people wont see them.
ReplyDelete2). Search engines work by catorgarizing websites by content like sports, news, games. also if you type in a specific word it will bring websites up under the context of the word you wrote exp. cars
3). Yahoo began when two nerds decided to make information on the web eaiser to acsess for the ganeral public.
4). ads are able to send you to other websites were you can buy that product. that is why they are contruversal
5). Google was more esally acsessibale also having compines pay for advertisment on their website helped them bring in a revanue
1. with out yahoo and google your web experience would be like you would have to memorize or write down the exact web site to go on it when you want to every time and when you would want to search fro some thing you would have to search the web sites you knew and get some from other just to find the information you wanted.
ReplyDelete2. a search engines work by typing in key words and the search for the words in the web site to find the stuff that you are more looking for.
3. yahoo began by two guy from Stanford trying to fine stats for fancy sports easer than searching web site at random. so they tying to make there search easer.
4. The role of advertising on the web was a way for the web browser like yahoo and excite to make money for the browsers.
5. The thing that made google different was the fact that it search by key words and it search the whole web and it stole a idea from anther company about how they got money by when you search you get people selling stuff that was related to what you were searching for in steed of adds that you randomly got by people compony paying it to be there.