In 1998, Google (Google) founders Page and Google jointly developed a new online search engine in the student dormitory of Stanford University in the United States, and then quickly spread it to information seekers around the world. With the emergence of search engines such as Yahoo, domestic , Baidu and other search engines, modern people have become the "search generation". Search engines are not only assistants in our work and life, but also become entertainment tools.
How is the atomic bomb made? Can ants fall to death? Sister Furong, how do you say in English? If you don’t know, just search online! You can find answers to many weird questions, this is search engine. Today's Internet can already solve most of the problems we encounter in life, or at least provide reference answers.
Starting in the 1960s, the "Ten Whys" series of books has become a household name in China and has continued to flourish. Now, search engines are already the Internet version of "One Hundred Thousand Whys", and the number of problems they can solve has long exceeded 100,000. With a computer and a network cable, you can know everything about the world without leaving home. It is search engines that have changed our lives.
In 1998, Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin received a check of $100,000 from Sun co-founder Andy Bochtosem, a student at Stanford University in the United States. They jointly developed a new online search engine in the dormitory and co-founded Google in September of the same year. When the company was founded, Page and Brin worked side by side for six months in a suburban garage in Menlo Park, California. Google's first data center was built in a 7-by-8-square-foot room that the company rented.
Google has innovated in dynamic summaries, web page snapshots, multi-document format support, multi-language support, map stock dictionary, web page level, user interface, etc., and has also rewritten people's concept of search engines. After celebrating its tenth birthday, Google released its first iPhone app, expanded Street View beyond the United States, showed off a new version of its Picasa image management tool, and launched an Wikipedia -like service called Knol. However, advertising profit is Google's main profit model, which supports Google's huge search project. Currently, Google is recognized as the world's largest search engine.
Baidu is the world's largest Chinese search engine. It was founded in Beijing in January 2000 by Robin Li and Xu Yong . It is committed to providing people with a "simple and reliable" way to obtain information. It is said that the word "Baidu" originated from the Chinese poet Xin Qiji of the Song Dynasty, "Looking for him in a thousand Baidu", which symbolizes Baidu's persistent pursuit of Chinese information retrieval technology. Baidu Company adheres to the concept of "user-oriented", always responds to the needs of the majority of netizens, and continues to provide netizens with various products based on search engines, including functional search based on web search, Community searches based on Tieba and vertical searches for various regions and industries fully cover all search needs in the Chinese online world. According to authoritative third-party data, Baidu’s search share in China exceeds 70%, which means it has far surpassed Google among Chinese search engines.
Nowadays, we are gradually becoming the search generation. "Wikipedia" defines it as: "They are teenagers who often use search engines. They use Google or Yahoo to help them complete their daily lives." It can be seen that the search generation generally refers to the frequent use of search engines. For people who use search engines, search engines are not only assistants in their work and life, but also become tools for entertainment!
