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  2. Timeline of web search engines - Wikipedia

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    [13] [14] [15] However, the World Wide Web Wanderer is intended only to measure the size of the web rather than to facilitate search. September: 2: First web search engine: W3Catalog, written by Oscar Nierstrasz at the University of Geneva, is released to the world. It is the world's first web search engine.

  3. History of virology - Wikipedia

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    After tobacco mosaic was recognized as a virus disease, virus infections of many other plants were discovered. [34] The importance of tobacco mosaic virus in the history of viruses cannot be overstated. It was the first virus to be discovered, and the first to be crystallised and its structure shown in detail.

  4. Timeline of computer viruses and worms - Wikipedia

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    March 26: The Melissa worm was released, targeting Microsoft Word and Outlook -based systems, and creating considerable network traffic. June 6: The ExploreZip worm, which destroys Microsoft Office documents, was first detected. September: the CTX virus is isolated.

  5. Social history of viruses - Wikipedia

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    In England the disease, then called "mezils", was first described in the 13th century, and it was probably one of the 49 plagues that occurred between 526 and 1087. [30] Rinderpest, which is caused by a virus closely related to measles virus, is a disease of cattle known since Roman times. [ 41 ]

  6. Viral evolution - Wikipedia

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    Viral evolution is an important aspect of the epidemiology of viral diseases such as influenza (influenza virus), AIDS (HIV), and hepatitis (e.g. HCV). The rapidity of viral mutation also causes problems in the development of successful vaccines and antiviral drugs, as resistant mutations often appear within weeks or months after the beginning ...

  7. Search engine - Wikipedia

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    Some engines suggest queries when the user is typing in the search box. A search engine is a software system that provides hyperlinks to web pages and other relevant information on the Web in response to a user's query. The user inputs a query within a web browser or a mobile app, and the search results are often a list of hyperlinks ...

  8. List of search engines - Wikipedia

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    Cross-platform open-source desktop search engine. Unmaintained since 2011-06-02 [9]. LGPL v2 [10] Terrier Search Engine: Linux, Mac OS X, Unix: Desktop search for Windows, Mac OS X (Tiger), Unix/Linux. MPL v1.1 [11] Tracker: Linux, Unix: Open-source desktop search tool for Unix/Linux GPL v2 [12] Tropes Zoom: Windows: Semantic Search Engine (no ...

  9. Timeline of Google Search - Wikipedia

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    Time period. Development. 1996–1997. Development of basic technology, launch of search engine, attachments like gmail and classroom come later. 2000. Internationalization: search is launched in 13 new languages. 2001–2004. Google launches many new search categories, such as Google News, Google Books, and Google Scholar. 2002 onward.