Battling portals.
Google (Google, Mountain View, CA, www.google.com) The largest search engine on the Web, founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two Stanford University students. In 1996, they developed their "BackRub" search engine, named after its unique page ranking method (explained below). is the most popular Web search engine See Web search engines. , ahead of Yahoo! and
others, as the top graph graph, figure that shows relationships between quantities. The graph of a function y=f (x) is the set of points with coordinates [x, f (x)] in the xy-plane, when x and y are numbers. shows. In April, Google unveiled a new e-mail
service--Gmail--that is sure to heat up the battle of Web portals See portal. .
SHARE OF 'SEARCH' MARKET
Google Sites 35%
Yahoo! Sites 30
MSN-Microsoft 15
Sites
Time 15
Warner
Network
(AOL)
Ask Jeeves 2%
Other 3%
E-MAIL SERVICES: Number of users in Feb. '04 (in thousands)
Yahoo! Mail 52,660
MSN Hotmail 45,417
AOL 40,219
Numbers for Google's e-mail service not yet available
SOURCE: ComScore Networks
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