History of Search Engines

What was the name of the program written by Ellen Temptation in 1990 that downloaded all the file listings from popular servers onto his university's local computer?

• Google

• Alta Vista

• Yahoo

• Archie

What was the primary task of the World Wide Web virtual library created by Tim Berners-Lee and a team of other expert volunteers in 1991?

• To sell advertising in its search results

• To automatically index webpages

• To manually compile high quality academic information

• To measure the growth of the web

Which search engine was considered the first web crawler, a program that discovers and indexes new web pages?

• Jump Station

• Lycos

• Excite

• HotBot

What was the significant feature of Alta Vista that made it a major selling point after its public launch in 1995?

• It was the first search engine to sell advertising in its search results

• It was powered by an automatically crawling and indexing search engine

• It had a hierarchical directory of web pages created entirely by hand

• It contained a full text index of the 500 gigabytes of webpages it crawled

What was the primary task of Yahoo's hierarchical directory of web pages when it started out?

• To manually build a list of favorite web sites

• To automatically sort websites by relative popularity

• To measure the growth of the web

• To create a natural language based search engine

What was the original name of Ask.com before it was known as Ask Jeeves?

• Ask Jeeves

• Yahoo

• Alta Vista

• Jump Station

What algorithm developed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin determined the importance of web pages by analyzing how many times a page was linked to by others?

• Windex

• Backrub

• PageRank

• Alpha Processor

What was the major advantage of Google's PageRank algorithm over other search engines of its time?

• It automatically sorted websites by relative popularity

• It was resilient to spamming

• It was able to organize content based on quality

• It was introduced rather late into the search engine game

What event allowed Google to take over the search engine market after its introduction in 1998?

• The development of the first web crawler

• The creation of the World Wide Web virtual library

• The introduction of targeted ads based on user search habits

• The dot-com bubble nearing its peak

What is the estimated number of requests served by Google per day?

• 1 billion

• 2 billion

• 3.5 billion

• 5 billion