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2. Bing – Bing is Microsoft’s attempt to challenge Google in the area of search but despite their efforts they still did not manage to convince users that their search engine can produce better results than Google.

3. Yahoo – Since October 2011 Yahoo search is powered by Bing. Yahoo is still the most popular email provider and according to reports holds the third place in search.

С4. Ask.com – Formerly known as Ask Jeeves, Ask.com receives

approximately 3% of the search share. ASK is based on a question/answer format where most questions are answered by other users or are in the form of polls. It also has the general search functionality but the results returned lack quality compared to Google or even Bing and Yahoo.

и6. Blekko.com – Blekko.com was developed by ex-Googlers and they present themselves as the “spam free search engine”. It is better suited for

5. AOL.com – According to netmarketshare the old time famous AOL is still in the top 10 search engines with a market share that is close to 0.6%. The AOL network includes many popular web sites like engadget.com,

calculations,бАfor example if you enter “mortgage 2000” as input it will calculate your loan amount, interestДpaid etc. based on a number of assumptions.

techchrunch.com and the huffingtonpost.com.

webmasters and SEO’s who need more data for SEO purposes rather than

normal users.

7. Wolframalpha – wolframalpha is different that all the other

search engines. They market it as a Computational Knowledge Engine which

can give you facts and data for a number of topics. It can do all sorts of

8. DuckDuckGo – Has a number of advantages over the other search engines. It has a clean interface, it does not track users, it is not fully loaded

with ads and has a number of very nice features (only one page of results, you can search directly other web sites etc)И. I am sure that some of the

features of duckduckgo will be used by other search engines and with some proper funding duckduckgo can get a decent search engine market share.

9. WayBackMachine – archive.org is the internet archive search engine. You can use it to find out how a web site looked since 1996. It is very useful tool if you want to trace the history of a domain and examine how it has changed over the years.

10.ChaCha.com – According to alexa chacha.com is the 8th most popular search engine with a ranking position of 297 in the US. It is similar to ask.com where users can ask or answer a particular question. They also have a number of quizzes that can help you decide on a number of topics. It’s not bad at all and the answers are precise and to the point. For example if you search “What is the best search engine?” you will get an answer that Google is the best and most popular search engine and Yahoo is on the second place.

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These are the 10 best and most popular search engines on the Internet today. The list is by no means complete and for sure many more will be created in the future but as far as the first places are concerned, Google and Bing will hold the lead positions for years to come.

What pluses and minuses do these engines have?

С28. Give a talk on your speciality (IT engineering) using this plan. a) qualifications of your faculty;

b) your specialized subjects;

с) where can you work after graduating. и бА Д И

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Реферирование текста (rendering the text/article)

1. Headline of the article (text), title of the newspaper or the magazine, date of publication, the author.

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