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Myspace Facts
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MySpace was founded by former Friendster members Chris Dewolfe and
Tom Anderson in 2003. They saw opportunity to beat Friendster with
more options and less restrictions for social network users. MySpace
was purchased in 2005 for $580 million by Rupert Murdoch creator of a
media empire that includes 20th Century Fox and the Fox television
stations. MySpace has more than 40 billion page views a month. Google
paid $900 million to be MySpace’s search provider. MySpace runs on
Microsoft .NET Framework, operating under Windows 2003 server and
applications written in C# for ASP.NET.

History of Amazon.com
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Jeff Bezon coined the term Amazon.com from the earlier name
Cadabra.com. It was the excellent way to present large volume online
bookstore. But did he have hidden intentions? It is hard to believe
but in the early Internet days, when Yahoo was dominant search engine,
results on one page were listed alphabetically. Amazon would always
appear above its competition for a specific keywords. This could be a
breaking point for Jeff to expand and became what it is today.

What Is Google?
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Google, the Internet search company founded in September 1998. By
Larry Page & Sergey Brin, got it’s name from the word Googol, which
represents number 1 followed with hundred zeros after it.

What Is Yahoo!?
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Yahoo the complex Internet organism has complicated name. Word
“Yahoo” is shortcut for “Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle”.
It was coined by PhD candidates at Stanford University: David Filo and
Jerry Yang.

“What is pi?” : Interesting
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A mathematician: “pi is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to
its diameter.”
A computer programmer: “pi is 3.141592653589 in double precision.”
A physicist: “pi is 3.14159 plus or minus 0.000005.”
An engineer: “pi is about 22/7.”
A nutritionist: “Pie is a healthy and delicious dessert!”

 

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