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Google was officially launched in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin to market Google Search, which has become the most used web-based search engine. Larry Page and Sergey Brin, students at Stanford University in California, developed a search algorithm first (1996) known as "BackRub", with the help of Scott Hassan and Alan Steremberg.
Google Search, offered by Google, is the most widely used search engine on the World Wide Web as of 2023, with over eight billion searches a day. This page covers key events in the history of Google's search service.
As of January 2022, Google is by far the world's most used search engine, with a market share of 90.6%, and the world's other most used search engines were Bing, Yahoo!, Baidu, Yandex, and DuckDuckGo.
Some browsers support the Wikipedia search engine plugin by default. To get Wikipedia search results while on any web page, you can temporarily set your browser's (web-based) search box to interface the Wikipedia search engine and land on Wikipedia's search results page.
Google LLC is an American multinational corporation from the United States. It is known for creating and running one of the largest search engines on the World Wide Web (WWW). Every day more than a billion people use it. Google's headquarters (known as the "Googleplex") is in Mountain View, California, part of Silicon Valley.
By following the links below, you can use the Google search engine to search Wikipedia – either all languages, or English-only. Google indexes all namespaces except user talk. Search all languages; Search the English Wikipedia only; How to provide a link to a specific Google Search
Mar 8, 2022 · Contents. 1 Searching Wikipedia. 1.1 Basic Searching. 1.1.1 Varying the Search. 1.1.2 Search Operators. 1.1.3 Searching Other Namespaces. 1.1.4 Some Special Searches. 1.1.5 Search Problems and Some Alternatives. 1.2 External Search Engines. 1.2.1 When to Use External Search Engines. 1.2.2 When Not to Use External Search Engines.
