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DuckDuckGo

You use them every day, but how much do you really know about search engines?

No Googling now!

WE’VE COME A LONG way since the first search engine was launched back in 1990.

What started as basic ways of indexing pages helped us get to where we are today, where information and pages are at our fingertips.

But how much do you really know about the history of search and its present? Why not find out.

What was the first ever search engine called?
Eamonn Farrell/RollingNews.ie
Gopher
Veronica

Jughead
Archie search engine
Google was founded in 1996 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, but what was the name of its predecessor?
Ben Margot/PA Images
Backrub
Massage

Jacuzzi
Bliss
Ask Jeeves was one rival to Google when it launched in 1997 but what was different about it?
Instead of presenting results, it just sent you to the most relevant site directly.
It presented results based on natural language.

It was the first crawler-based search engine (one that visits web sites and reads their pages to use for results).
It began indexing websites.
Yahoo! first launched its search engine back in 2002, but what year was it originally founded?
1993
1994

1995
1996
Which one of these was *not* a real search engine in the 90s?
AltaVista
DogPile

Wikipedia
Psygnosis
DuckDuckGo's main feature is it's a search engine that doesn't track you, but roughly how many 'sources' does it rely on for searches?
DuckDuckGo
35
45

50
65
How much does Google pay Apple to include its search bar on iPhone and iPad?*
Gareth Fuller/PA Wire
$435 million
$500 million

$1 billion
$5 billion
Bing is Microsoft's own search engine but when did its predecessor, MSN search, launch?
AP Photo/Jeff Chiu
1996
1998

1999
2001
Which one of these was *not* the name of a Google search update?
AP Photo/Keith Srakocic
Penguin
AP Photo/Joshua Paul
Panda

AP Photo/Nick Ut
Hummingbird
AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee
Tiger
Answer all the questions to see your result!
You scored out of !
Who needs Google?
If we could, we would change the results so a picture of you would appear anytime someone searched for 'knowledgeable'. Honest.
Share your result:
You scored out of !
Oh...
Maybe next time you should have Google beside you so you can search the answers.
Share your result:
You scored out of !
A good effort
You have enough knowledge to get you by, but you rely on search to fill in the blanks. No shame in that.
Share your result:

*Based on a report from Bloomberg in January.

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    Mute Linda Mooney
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    Nov 11th 2013, 8:11 AM

    Why was he never held accountable? Why? Ireland’s very own Goebels.Despicable. Why didn’t it get taken to the Human Rights Court when out own system let these women down .

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    Mute Catherine Mill
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    Nov 11th 2013, 11:38 AM

    Yes I agree he should be in jail. Everyone in Drogheda knew about him and many went North or to Dublin to have their babies. Everyone was too scared to speak out lest they loose their own jobs.
    Clearly Irish women’s wombs and creativity are not worth much with the amount of money they will receive. For a lifetime of misery.
    The worst feeling has to be that Neary has never been jailed
    Justice has to be SEEN, To be done.!

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    Mute rotund jocularity
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    Nov 11th 2013, 8:41 AM

    Its a shame that when he was burgled and assaulted that he didnt have his head removed when he went there for medical assistance. Why isnt he in jail?

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    Nov 11th 2013, 8:42 AM

    ‘there’ being hospital

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    Mute Ed Appleby
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    Nov 11th 2013, 11:21 AM

    Neary should be behind bars along with those who helped him and those in management who should have stopped him. The hospital at the centre of this also needs to be held accountable, did they not have any checks in place to stop this kind of abuse of patients taking place? I cannot believe he has never been arrested and charged, only in Ireland would a monster like Neary be allowed to walk around scot free.

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    Mute Catherine Mill
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    Nov 11th 2013, 11:42 AM

    Well, I heard one nurse tried to get the truth out and lost her job.
    These doctors were treated like “gods”
    Even see the way the nurses have to walk feet behind them on their rounds and the fear in the nurses body language.
    We just need to see old patriarchy for what it was and is.

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    Mute Catherine Mill
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    Nov 11th 2013, 11:44 AM

    This hospital had a terrible reputation- not just Neary.
    People even carried cards stipulating that in emergency Do not bring me to MMM Drogheda.
    Also in the 1990′s unmarried girls were treated like sinners and made to suffer. You had to have seen it and experienced it to comprehend.

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    Mute brian walters
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    Nov 11th 2013, 10:16 AM

    Why was this man not jailed

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    Mute Catherine Mill
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    Nov 11th 2013, 11:39 AM

    its Ireland.
    They were just women after all, second class citizens. That was the mentality and no one can say otherwise.

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    Mute b flynn
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    Nov 11th 2013, 4:44 PM

    Well done to the women, their persistence with the support of Patient Focus – they now have got for us what our solicitors couldn’t

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    Mute Marie O Connor
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    Nov 11th 2013, 3:55 PM

    Redress? What redress? Still the same old, same old. Trying to save money at the expense of justice. The Supreme Court awarded one of these women 250,000 10 years ago: today the Government offers 60,000 – 100,000 for the same injury. Women over 40 were having children when Judge Harding Clark excluded them on age grounds from the terms of a so-called redress scheme that was then rubber stamped by HSE funded patient groups. And what’s this about 30 days in which to apply? Is this another cost saver, drawn up in the hope that late applications will disqualify some?

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