World Wide Web
hideThe World Wide Web is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. With a web browser, one can view Web pages that may contain text, images, videos, and other multimedia and navigate between them using hyperlinks. Using concepts from earlier hypertext systems, the World Wide Web was invented in 1989 by the English physicist Tim Berners-Lee, now the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium, and later assisted by Robert Cailliau, a Belgian computer scientist, while both were working at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1990, they proposed building a "web of nodes" storing "hypertext pages" viewed by "browsers" on a network, and released that web in December.
Connected by the existing Internet, other websites were created, around the world, adding international standards for domain names and the HTML language. Since then, Berners-Lee has played an active role in guiding the development of Web standards (such as the markup languages in which Web pages are composed), and in recent years has advocated his vision of a Semantic Web. The World Wide Web enabled the spread of information over the Internet through an easy-to-use and flexible format. It thus played an important role in popularizing use of the Internet. Although the two terms are sometimes conflated in popular use, World Wide Web is not synonymous with Internet. The Web is an application built on top of the Internet.
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Microsoft brings more Web data to Bing results; teams up with WolframAlpha
Nov 11, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Microsoft's Bing search service will pull more information and tools from other Web sites as the company tries to distinguish itself as part of its challenge to market leader Google.
Google providing better view of personal data
Nov 05, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Google is offering a new privacy control that will make it easier for people to see some of the information being collected about them.
Google CEO: Vast Web changes coming within 5 years
Oct 21, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A Web where Chinese is the dominant language, and connections are so fast that distinctions between audio, video and text are blurred is perhaps just five years away, the head of Google said Wednesday.
Google blames Gmail outage on server maintenance
Sep 02, 2009 |
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Internet giant Google has blamed server maintenance for a Gmail outage which left millions of users without the free Web-based email service for more than an hour and a half on Tuesday.
Tech gadgets can be addictive
Aug 28, 2009 |
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I've been thinking I need to take a break from technology. Not an extended one, mind you. I'm not planning on becoming some latter-day Thoreau and retreating to my own Walden Pond sans laptop, TV and smart-phone.
Yahoo! vows to fight Microsoft on new front
Aug 25, 2009 |
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Yahoo! on Monday vowed to fight Microsoft on a new frontier, saying that having the software giant power its online searches won't stop it from battling for the devotion of Web surfers.
After Bing's first month, Microsoft still No. 3
Jul 15, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Microsoft Corp.'s redesigned search site has attracted more Web surfers without doing much for the software maker's market share in its first month.
Yahoo CEO promises shareholders to get 'mojo back'
Jun 25, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Yahoo Chief Executive Carol Bartz echoed the turnaround promises of her predecessors as she presided over the first shareholder meeting since her hiring, yet she left little doubt the slumping Internet company's ...
Microsoft ads say search is sick, Bing is the cure
Jun 03, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. is inventing a new malady for which its new Web search site, Bing, is the only cure.
'Most Popular' Status Affects What People Eat, Study Finds
Jun 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study finds that diners are at least 13 percent more likely to order a dish if they know it is among a restaurant’s most popular.
Bing it on: Microsoft overhauls search, again
May 28, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. is rolling out a redesigned search site in the coming days and hopes it will lure more Web surfers than the two most recent incarnations, Live Search and MSN Search.
Google digging deeper to improve search results (Update)
May 13, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Google Inc. is about to add more features to its already dominant Internet search engine - and some of the changes could give Web surfers less reason to click through to other sites. That scenario ...
Providers test the limits of access to Internet with new pricing systems
May 06, 2009 |
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Your days of all-you-can-eat Internet buffet may be coming to an end. Probably not tomorrow, but soon enough, industry analysts say.
Computer giant Acer launches mobile phones in Asia
Apr 22, 2009 |
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Taiwan-based computer giant Acer on Wednesday launched a series of advanced mobile phones for the Asia-Pacific region, ramping up its expansion into the wireless communication market.
Google to target ads based on Web surfing habits
Mar 11, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Google will use the information it collects on people's Web surfing habits to show more ads tailored to their individual interests.
