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WE’VE COME A LONG way since the first search engine was launched back in 1990.
What started as basic ways of indexing pages helped us get to where we are today, where information and pages are at our fingertips.
But how much do you really know about the history of search and its present? Why not find out.
*Based on a report from Bloomberg in January.
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First time getting none right doesn’t bother me.
That correct answer for ask Jeeves was very well worded….
I know if I type “dwarf porn” and hit enter it’s a bit of a giggle!
The popular press call it “The Dark Web”.
We engineers (who are in the know) call it:……..”DuckDuckGo”.
Etc.!
P.S
DuckDuckGo is a perfectly legitimate company.
But their encryption and IP hopping is so perfect they qualify for the title “The Dark Web”.
I enjoyed that though I did fail.
2 out of 9 is a pretty good result IMO. Knowing the answers to all those questions is not necessarily something to publicise.
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