A poll conducted by CNN.com has revealed that the advent of Google has had the biggest impact on the World Wide Web. 7,198 participants ““ 41% – voted for Google.


A poll conducted by CNN.com has revealed that the advent of Google has had the biggest impact on the World Wide Web. 7,198 participants voted for Google.

The list of top 10 was part of CNN.com’s 3 week survey of the top defining moments since the launch of the multimedia branch of the Internet by Tim Berners-Lee.

The viewers voted for Hotmail as No.6 in the list.

The survey allowed viewers to express opinions about the chosen list of top moments.

One such viewer, Felix Violenes, wrote, “Beside Google’s ability to process search requests in a natural language-like manner, I found its feature to search within search results fantastic. The feature last mentioned was something that existed in the search engine Infoseek in the days before Google was born.” [Source]

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