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  2. List of Internet top-level domains - Wikipedia

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    This list of Internet top-level domains (TLD) contains top-level domains, which are those domains in the DNS root zone of the Domain Name System of the Internet.A list of the top-level domains by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) is maintained at the Root Zone Database. [1]

  3. List of presidents of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Since the office was established in 1789, 45 men have served in 46 presidencies. The first president, George Washington, won a unanimous vote of the Electoral College. [ 4] Grover Cleveland served two non-consecutive terms and is therefore counted as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, giving rise to the discrepancy between the ...

  4. 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 . It provides a web portal, search engine ...

  5. History of Yahoo! - Wikipedia

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    When Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web was renamed to Yahoo! in 1994, Yang and Filo said that "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle" was a suitable backronym for this name, but they insisted they had selected the name because they liked the word's general definition, as in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth."

  6. Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    The domains wikipedia.org and wikipedia.com (later redirecting to wikipedia.org) were registered on January 13, 2001, [W 6] and January 12, 2001, [W 7] respectively. Wikipedia was launched on January 15, 2001 [ 20 ] as a single English-language edition at www.wikipedia.com, [ W 8 ] and was announced by Sanger on the Nupedia mailing list. [ 22 ]

  7. Yahoo! Inc. (1995–2017) - Wikipedia

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    Inc. [3] was an American multinational technology company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. Yahoo was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 2, 1995. [4] [5] Yahoo was one of the pioneers of the early internet era in the 1990s. [6] Marissa Mayer, a former Google executive, served as CEO and ...

  8. Yahoo! Directory - Wikipedia

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    Current status. Defunct as of December 26, 2014. The Yahoo! Directory was a web directory which at one time rivaled DMOZ in size. The directory was Yahoo! 's first offering and started in 1994 under the name Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web. [1] When Yahoo! changed its main results to crawler-based listings under Yahoo!

  9. List of search engines - Wikipedia

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    Windows. IDOL Enterprise Desktop Search, HP Autonomy Universal Search. [ 5] Proprietary, commercial. Beagle. Linux. Open-source desktop search tool for Linux based on Lucene. Unmaintained since 2009. A mix of the X11/MIT License and the Apache License.