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  2. Political Google bombs in the 2004 U.S. presidential election

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    In January 2009, President Barack Obama's official White House web site also appeared on the first few results for "miserable failure" on Live Search and Yahoo, and on the first page of results for the word "failure" on Google. The cause of this is disputed, with some claiming it to be the result of a similar campaign.

  3. Timeline of Yahoo! - Wikipedia

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    February 19, 2004: Yahoo! drops Google-powered results and launches its own web-crawling algorithm with its own site index. March 1, 2004: Yahoo announces that it will practice paid inclusion for its search service; however, it also announced that it would continue to rely mainly on a free web crawl for most of its search engine content.

  4. Google Buys Metaweb for Better Search Results - AOL

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    For years, Web experts have predicted that the next generation of Internet search products would go beyond results based on keywords or short phrases and be able to understand more complex queries.

  5. Yahoo! - Wikipedia

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    Yahoo! ( / ˈjɑːhuː /, styled yahoo! in its logo) [4] [5] is an American web services provider. It is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and operated by the namesake company Yahoo! Inc., which is 90% owned by investment funds managed by Apollo Global Management and 10% by Verizon Communications .

  6. Google Personalized Search - Wikipedia

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    History. Personalized Search was originally introduced on March 29, 2004 as a beta test of a Google Labs project. [2] On April 20, 2005, it was made available as a non-beta service, but still separate from ordinary Google Search. [3] [4] On November 11, 2005, it became a part of the normal Google Search, but only to users with Google Accounts.

  7. Search neutrality - Wikipedia

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    United States ( FCC) v. t. e. Search neutrality is a principle that search engines should have no editorial policies other than that their results be comprehensive, impartial and based solely on relevance. [1] This means that when a user types in a search engine query, the engine should return the most relevant results found in the provider's ...

  8. Prabhakar Raghavan - Wikipedia

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    Prabhakar Raghavan. Yahoo! Labs. Prabhakar Raghavan is a senior vice president at Google, where he is responsible for Google Search, Assistant, Geo, Ads, Commerce, and Payments products. [2] His research spans algorithms, web search and databases. [3] He is the co-author of the textbooks Randomized Algorithms [4] with Rajeev Motwani [5] and ...

  9. History of Yahoo! - Wikipedia

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    History of Yahoo! Yahoo! started at Stanford University. [1] It was founded in January 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo, who were electrical engineering graduates when they created a website named "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web". The Guide was a directory of other websites, organized in a hierarchy, as opposed to a searchable ...