10 SOCIAL MEDIA

FACEBOOK- is defined as an online social networking website

where people can create profiles, share information such as
photos and quotes about themselves, and respond or link to the
information posted by others. ... Founded in 2004 by Mark
Zuckerberg, the site is free to members and derives its revenue
from ads.

PINTEREST- is a visual discovery engine for finding ideas

like recipes, home and style inspiration, and more. With
billions of Pins on Pinterest, you'll always find ideas to spark
inspiration. When you discover Pins you love, save them to
boards to keep your ideas organized and easy to find.

TWITTER- is a 'microblogging' system that allows you to

send and receive short posts called tweets. Tweets can be up
to 140 characters long and can include links to relevant
websites and resources. Twitter users follow other users. If
you follow someone you can see their tweets in your twitter
'timeline'.

SNAPCHAT- is a popular messaging app that lets users

exchange pictures and videos (called snaps) that are meant
to disappear after they're viewed. ... On Snapchat, users go
by a handle, and Snapchatters gravitate toward silly names.
To add friends, you can upload your contacts or search for
people you know.

INSTAGRAM- is an online photo sharing service. It allows

you to apply different types of photo filters to your pictures
with a single click, then share them with others. ... The
website allows you to upload images, manage your photos,
apply filters, and share them with your friends.
 GOOGLE- LLC is an American multinational technology
company that specializes in Internet-related services and
products, which include online advertising technologies, a
search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware.

MESSENGER- pick up and carry messages, packages and

other items to specific locations. Travel can be
accomplished by foot, bike, motorcycle, vehicle or public
transportation. ... Depended on for their
efficiency, Messengers have to plan the best routes for
their deliveries.

WECHAT- has been described as China's "app for

everything" and a "super app" because of its wide range of
functions. WeChat provides text messaging, hold-to-talk
voice messaging, broadcast (one-to-many) messaging, video
conferencing, video games, sharing of photographs and
videos, and location sharing.

YOUTUBE- (ProperNoun) a video-sharing website.

Etymology: you + tube (North American colloquial term
for "television"), implying that users (the "you" in the
title) may submit their own television (the "tube" in the
title) content.

TIKTOK- (formerly known as musical.ly) is a social

media platform for creating, sharing and discovering
short music videos, think Karaoke for the digital age.
The app musical.ly was used by young people as an
outlet to express themselves through singing, dancing,
comedy, and lip-syncing.
 10 SEARCH ENGINE

Google- What made Google the most popular and trusted search
engine is the quality of its search results. Google is using
sophisticated algorithms to present the most accurate results to the
users. Is a popular Internet search engine.
It scans the Web to find Web pages that are relevant to the words you
have typed inBing-
Microsoft the search box.
is a search engine created and operated by
Microsoft, replacing its former Live Search, Windows Live
Search, and MSN Search offerings. ... Bing takes into account
more than 1 000 signals to order websites on search engine
result pages (SERP).

Yahoo- is an Internet portal that incorporates a search engine

and a directory of World Wide Web sites organized in a
hierarchy of topic categories. As a directory, it provides both
new and seasoned Web users the reassurance of a structured
view of hundreds of thousands of Web sites and millions of
Web pages.

Baidu- is the dominant Chinese internet search engine

company, and it is the equivalent to Google in the United
States. Baidu is similar to Google and offers similar products
and services, but the focus is China where it controls most of
the search market.

Yandex.ru- is a Russian Dutch-domiciled multinational

corporation providing Internet-related products and services,
including transportation, search and information services,
eCommerce, navigation, mobile applications, and online
advertising. They provide over 70 services.
DuckDuckGo- (also abbreviated as DDG) is an internet search
engine that emphasizes protecting searchers' privacy and avoiding
the filter bubble of personalized search results. DuckDuckGo
distinguishes itself from other search engines by not profiling its
users and by showing all users the same search results for a
given search term.
Ask.com- is a search engine that was started in 1996. This website
helps people find web pages that they are looking for, by typing in the
subject they want. For example, if someone is looking for web pages
about dogs, they would type in "dogs" or "dog" then press the 'search'
button.

ECOSIA- is a search engine based in Berlin, Germany, that

donates 80% or more of its profits to nonprofit
organizations that focus on reforestation and planting trees
where they are needed most. It considers itself a social
business, is CO2-negativeand claims to support full financial
transparency and protect the privacy of its users. Ecosia is
AOL.com- was one of the early pioneers of the Internet
also B Lab-certified.
in the mid-1990s, and the most recognized brand on the
web in the United States. It originally provided a dial-
up service to millions of Americans, as well as
providing a web portal, e-mail, instant messaging and
later a web browser following its purchase of Netscape.

Internet Archive- is an American digital library with the

stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge". It
provides free public access to collections of digitized
materials, including websites, software
applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving
images, and millions of books.