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Bing and Google They are search engines in which a user can look for web, image, video and map contents. They both use crawlers to scan and collect information on websites in order to index them for search. Both have a landing page where one will encounter a single search box centered in the screen. Even their search results page look very familiar. After reading a few articles comparing or promoting either one, I couldn't really tell the actual difference. Just depends on what one would more likely search. I also went and did a side by side comparison by searching the same thing in both search engines at the same time. From what I could tell, Bing seems to be geared towards more mainstream content. For instance, if you were to put a random phrase resembling music lyrics at all, Bing seems to have a higher chance of bringing up a music video in the top results than Google. I entered the phrase "dark horse". Bing brought up Katy Perry and Google brought up Dark ...

If your looking to find out which websites dominate the big WWW, there's no better place to look than www.alexa.com. It might sound familiar to those who own an Alexa, created by Amazon. They started off as an independently owned company until they were bought out by Amazon in 1996.  The company helps business increase their page rankings and profits through tactics such as SEO. Here are the top 10 websites listed on alexa.com 1.) Google Should  come as no surprise as the internet giant's presence on the web is ominficent. It is the number 1 search engine used by the world. As mentioned in the last post, they dominate the email client space. They too are masters in data collection and targeted advertising. 2. Youtube - Web2.0 Owned by Google, the original vlogging platform is still the popular choice of uploading cute animals playing instruments, among other things of course. You can find videos on a wide range of topics. Youtube can be an excellent learning resou...

Gmail is reported to have over 1 billion users. That statistic was back in 2016. Chances are you own a Gmail account and use it as your primary email. Let's look at some fun facts about the world's most favorite used webmail client. 1990's -  The man responsible for the creation of Gmail is a man named Paul Buchheit. As a college student, he was already working on a prototype for a personalized webmail client. 2001 - Buchheit works for Google and is assigned the task to create a personal web based product. He then officially creates the project that will be known to the world as Gmail. So at that time, what was the big deal about Gmail anyway? Hotmail and Yahoo were dominating the market. But not for long, thanks to a scripting language called Javascript and a frame work known as AJAX. Google wanted a more profitable, efficient, user friendly email client. By using Javascript they were able to create a more dynamic web product. Gmail is a stark example of the eme...