Chapter 28. How Google Works
To many people, Google is the Internet. The first thing they do when they go online is fire up their browser, head to Google, and start searching.
It’s easy to forget that things weren’t always this way. The company was founded in 1998 and became the largest search engine on the Internet in 2000, so in the grand scheme of things, the site is a relatively new phenomenon.
There were plenty of search engines around before Google burst on the scene, some of them still in existence, and some of them all but forgotten? Internet old-timers may remember when Alta Vista was the king of the search engines among those ...
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