The rise of Google‚ now a $6.1 billion company‚ has been fast and fierce. Founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page met in 1995 as Stanford University graduate students. They created a search engine that combined the technologies of Page’s PageRank system‚ which evaluates a page’s importance based on the external links to it‚ and Brin’s Web crawler‚ which visits Web sites and records a summary of their content. Because Google was so effective‚ it quickly became the search engine of choice for Web users
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only brought to the attention of most westerners after the terrorist attacks on September 11‚ 2001. However‚ they have a much deeper history rooted as far back as the Soviet Union’s invasion and occupation of the region. In order to comprehend the rise‚ fall and re-emergence of the Taliban‚ three men must be mentioned: Mohammad Omar‚ Ahmad Shah Massoud‚ and the most famous terrorist alive‚ Osama bin Laden. During the last days of the Afghanistan Soviet Union conflict‚ it was apparent that the less
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The Rise of Islam and Its Contributions to World History Islam has made many contributions to world history‚ both in its rise and development of a bright and complex culture. More specifically Islam has contributed to the world of modern science‚ medicine‚ literature and visual arts‚ greatly influencing other cultures along the way. Along with contributions to science and intellect‚ Islam has also contributed to world trade. Each contribution from the Islamic nation has helped shape the world
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the ingenuity and foresightedness of Teotihuacán’s elite‚ and‚ finally‚ the impact of natural disasters‚ such as the volcanic eruptions of the late first millennium B.C. 3 This last factor is at least circumstantially implicated in Teotihuacán’s rise. Prior to 200 B.C.‚ a number of relatively small centers coexisted in and near the Valley of Mexico. Around this time‚ the largest of these centers‚ Cuicuilco‚ was seriously affected by a volcanic eruption‚ with much of its agricultural land covered
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The Rise of Dictatorships After World War one‚ Germany had grown increasingly unhappy with the terms of the Treaty of Versailles. Because the democratic Weimar had signed the treaty‚ these same people‚ at worst also hated democracy as a form of government‚ and at best‚ were highly suspicious of its ability to run Germany. The German economy had been ruined by the war‚ in order to reparations; the government had begun printing large amounts of money in the early 1920s. As a result‚ German money
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Assignment #1: Investments BUS2007 For: Chay‚ J.‚ B. Deadline: 18th December 2009 Objective: To analyse the UK banking industry and the stocks HSBC‚ Lloyds‚ Royal Bank of Scotland and Barclays in the England banking industry and provide recommendations whether to buy‚ hold or sell the stock. 2009319086 · Kornelis Hooghiemster · khooghiemster@hotmail.com · 010 8696 5580 2009319085 · Vincent Schenkeveld · vincent.schenkeveld@student.hu.nl 2009319126 · Sander Barendse
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The company’s history was mainly in the chemicals industry. Having started in 1901 as a manufacturer of saccharin; by the 1970’s Monsanto was involved in businesses with oil/gas exploration‚ the production of acetic acid‚ plastics‚ synthetic rubber‚ resins‚ polystyrene‚ polyethylene‚ insulation‚ flame retardant materials‚ and Astroturf. In 1978‚ agriculture and food processing
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The Rise of Communities (1280-1663 A.D.) Research Paper History 101 Submitted By: Group 5 Kimberly Charm Terrago Cheline Antonette Flores Diane Nica Formeloza Lei Arana I. Introduction The process towards fragmentation was encouraged by a number of factors: First‚ The character of geographic environment naturally induced isolation and differentiation or budding off populations; second‚ the absence of unifying and controlling systems allowed the process to move undeterred
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Alexander Blickensdorfer His-109 3/10/2013 Carl Wertman The primary causes of the American Revolution were social in nature because the unjust treatment of the colonists provoked more intellectual thought about individual liberties. Events that induced such thought and were the publication of Common Sense by Thomas Paine‚ the signing of Declaration of Independence‚ and the Battle of Saratoga. Thomas Paine’s pamphlet‚ Common Sense gave hope to the American colonists. The signing of the
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The United States underwent vastly different presidents but had a constant global presence during the 1970’s. The country was near the end of a stressful war in Vietnam and was pressured by a rise in communism and domestic problems. The presidents during this era were Nixon‚ Ford‚ and Carter. The power of the United States government was changing‚ but constant abroad and at home during the 1970’s. Richard Nixon abused and power of the government and lost the people’s trust with the government.
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