*.Google got its name from the mathematical
figure googol, which denotes the number 'one
followed by a hundred zeros'.
*.Yahoo! derived its name from the word Yahoo
coined by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels. A
Yahoo is a person who is repulsive in
appearance and action and is barely human!
*.Researchers consider that the first search
engine was Archie, created in 1990 by Alan
Emtage, a student at McGill University in
Montreal, Canada.
*.Marc Andreessen founded Netscape. In 1993,
he had alreadydeveloped Mosaic, the first Web
browser with a GUI.
*.It was once considered a letter in the English
language. The Chinesecall it a little mouse,
Danes and Swedes call it 'elephant's trunk',
Germans a spider monkey, and Italians a snail.
Israelis pronounce it 'strudels' and the Czechs
say 'rollmops's...What is it? The @ sign.
*.In the Deep Web, the part of the Web not
currently catalogued by search engines, public
information said to be 500 times larger than on
the WWW.
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