Ask.com , also known as Ask Jeeves is a search engine of Internet . It is part of the company InterActive Corporation , founded in 1996 by Garrett Gruener and David Warthen in Berkeley , California . The original program was implemented by Gary Chevsky based on your own. The first investor was the Roda Group. Ask.com has a wide variety of websites. In addition to covers for various countries including UK , Italy , Germany , Japan , Netherlands and Spain also has the version of Ask for Kids, as well as Teoma , Excite, MyWay.com, iWon.com, Bloglines and other thematic portals. Due to the combined traffic from all web sites, Ask.com was one of the ten companies with more visits in the U.S. in September 2004.

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Ask.com was originally known as Ask Jeeves, where Jeeves is the name of a steward , whose avatar was drawn by Mark Sorenson , who was looking for answers to any questions. The Jeeves character was largely based on the novel Butler’s character Bertie Wooster . The idea that led to Ask Jeeves is to allow users to get answers to questions asked by others in natural language . Over time and due to the increasing efficiency of search engines like Google , Ask Jeeves began to lose users, but modified its technology to accept the search by keyword, so that other search engines Ask Jeeves used to find answers. However, as Ask.com is slow to index all your pages, do not suffer from spam and other major search engines online . More

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BBC Logo – The British Broadcasting Corporation (British Broadcasting Corporation), better known as the BBC is public service media in the UK. Headquartered in the Broadcasting House in Westminster, London. It is the largest media group in the world with about 23,000 employees. Its functions are to television and radio broadcast publicly in the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man and Channel Islands. It is an autonomous public body and set in 1922 by a Royal Decree which guarantees its independence from political and commercial control.

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In the United Kingdom is financed by a TV license paid by each household, company and organization where there is any equipment capable of receiving and / or record radio and television. The price of this license is set annually by the British Government and agreed in Parliament. In 2010 the price per household was £ 145.50. More

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Flickr is a website that allows you to store, sort, search, sell and share pictures and video online. Flickr currently has a large community of users sharing the photographs and videos created by themselves. This community is governed by rules of behavior and conditions of use to promote good management of content.

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Flickr’s popularity is largely due to its ability to manage images using tools that allow authors to tag their photos and images to explore and comment on other users. Flickr has a free version and another fee, called a pro. Currently, subscribers Free accounts can upload videos in normal quality photos and 100 MB per month, with up to 200 pictures as a stop for each free account. After that limit reached 200 images, only the last 200 remain visible images uploaded, that is, spend the first charges to be hidden, but not eliminated. This is remedied by updating the account to a Pro Similarly, a user with free account can only upload images with a maximum resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels. That is, if the user loads a higher resolution image, the site resizes to the resolution mentioned above. More

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The Internet Movie Database ( IMDb , in Spanish movies database on the Internet ) is a database online that provides information about movies , production crew personnel (including directors and producers ), actors , television shows , programs TV , video games , players of dubbing , and most recently, fictional characters that appear in visual entertainment media. It is one of the most popular online entertainment, with over 100 million unique users per month, and a mobile version with a strong presence that is growing rapidly. March IMDb opened on October 17th of 1990 , and in 1998 was acquired by Amazon.com .

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IMDb has an extensive list of films, short films, documentaries, video games and television programs worldwide, including summaries, quizzes, and trade data errors. IMDb forums are public comments and questions about movies, likes or dislikes. Explicit political content by the moderators remove posts we consider offensive. Since April 2005 , the use of the forum is restricted to registered users. It also allows users to add movies or TV series to a watchlist ( Watchlist ), indicating the series or seen the movies, and lists of films with a common denominator. More

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Craigslist is an online community Web organized by cities, which offers each free classified ads on various topics: employment, housing, sentimental, sale / barter, miscellaneous services, jobs of short duration, and so on. It also has forums sorted by various topics. It was founded in 1995 by Craig Newmark for the Bay Area of San Francisco . After its establishment in 1999, Craigslist expanded into nine more cities in 2000 (all in U.S. ), four per year in 2001 and 2002 and 14 in 2003. Until June 2006, Craigslist had established itself in approximately 310 cities worldwide.

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In 2006, Craigslist operates with a staff of 28 people. Their only source of income is through the collection of classified ads for employment in certain cities ($ 75 per ad for the Bay Area of San Francisco, $ 25 per ad for New York , Los Angeles , Boston , Seattle , Washington DC and listings of real estate agencies in New York ($ 10 per ad)). More

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PayPal Logo — PayPal is a company American, owned by eBay , belonging to the sector of electronic commerce on the Internet that allows the transfer of money between users with email , an alternative to traditional paper methods such as checks or money orders . PayPal also processes requests for payment in electronic commerce and other Web services, for which charges a percentage. Most of their clientele comes from the online auction site eBay . From the 31 March of 2008 the Executive Director (CEO) of eBay ‘s John Donahoe . Its headquarters is in San Jose ( California , USA ), its headquarters are in Omaha ( Nebraska , USA) and operations center for Europe is in Dublin ( Ireland ).

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It was initially founded under the name of Confinity in 1998 by Peter Thiel and Max Levchin . After its merger with X.com was renamed PayPal. It is worth noting that still retain the domain x.com. One of its first headquarters was the 165 University Avenue in Palo Alto , California , where he started several companies in Silicon Valley . In principle, PayPal was a service to transfer money via PDAs . But the payment on the web became a business more appealing. An aggressive marketing by offering the first $ 10 and then $ 5 by registering in the system, caused the growth was meteoric: between 7 and 10% per day between January and March 2000. More

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