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Twitch is a livestreaming platform owned by Amazon. Launched in 2011 from Justin.tv, it became the main home for game streaming, esports, live chat, subscriptions, emotes, raids, creator communities, and real-time entertainment that lets audiences participate while shows are being made.
Discord is a communication platform built around servers, channels, text chat, voice rooms, video calls, livestreams, bots, roles, and community moderation. Launched in 2015 with strong gaming roots, it now hosts friend groups, creators, fandoms, developers, classrooms, and online communities.
LinkedIn is a professional networking website and app owned by Microsoft. Launched in 2003, it grew from an online resume and contacts service into a major platform for job search, recruiting, workplace content, B2B marketing, creator posts, company pages, and career identity.
X, formerly Twitter, is a microblogging and social networking platform built around short public posts, real-time conversation, hashtags, media sharing, and follower networks. Founded as Twitter in 2006, it was acquired by Elon Musk in 2022, rebranded as X in 2023, and later folded into his AI company xAI.
Facebook is a social networking website and app owned by Meta. Launched in 2004 from Harvard, it grew from a college directory into one of the defining platforms of social media, shaping online identity, friend networks, news distribution, advertising, groups, communities, and privacy debates.
GitHub is a popular developer platform for hosting code, collaborating on software, reviewing changes, tracking issues, automating workflows, and publishing open-source projects. Founded in 2008 and acquired by Microsoft in 2018, it has become core infrastructure for modern software development.
TikTok is a short-form video platform owned by ByteDance. It became globally prominent after TikTok and musical.ly merged in 2018, popularizing a highly personalized For You feed, remixable sounds, creator trends, and mobile-first entertainment.
Instagram is a photo and video-sharing social network owned by Meta. Launched in 2010 by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, it grew from square filtered photos into a major platform for creators, brands, messaging, Stories, Reels, shopping, and visual online culture.
Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia written and maintained by volunteers. Launched in 2001 and hosted by the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation since 2003, it became one of the web's central reference sites and a major source layer for search engines, AI systems, students, journalists, and everyday readers.
YouTube is a video-sharing website and platform where people upload, watch, stream, comment on, and monetize video. Founded in 2005 and acquired by Google in 2006, it became a central home for creators, music, education, entertainment, live video, Shorts, and internet culture.
Kagi is a paid, ad-free search engine from Kagi Inc. It is built around a user-funded model that tries to align search quality with subscribers rather than advertisers, while adding privacy tools, ranking controls, AI features, and the Orion browser ecosystem.
Startpage is a Netherlands-based privacy search engine that lets people search the web without personal profiling. It acts as a privacy layer between users and search-result providers, combining partner-supplied results with policies against saving or selling personal search data.
Brave Search is a privacy-focused search engine from Brave Software. Launched in 2021, it is notable for building its own web index, offering user-controlled ranking tools, and positioning itself as an independent alternative to Google- and Bing-powered search.
Ecosia is a not-for-profit search engine founded in Berlin in 2009 by Christian Kroll. It earns money from search ads and dedicates its profits to climate action, especially tree-planting and restoration projects, while positioning itself as a privacy-friendly alternative to larger search engines.
Naver is South Korea's leading search portal and one of the clearest examples of a search engine shaped by local language, community content, shopping, maps, blogs, and AI. Launched in 1999, it became central to how many Koreans search, read, shop, and navigate online.
Baidu is China's leading search engine and a major AI company. Founded in 2000 by Robin Li and Eric Xu, it grew from Chinese-language web search into a broader ecosystem of search, feeds, online marketing, maps, knowledge products, cloud, autonomous driving, and AI services.
Yandex is a search engine and technology brand that began with Russian-language search technologies and launched Yandex.ru in 1997. Its search history shows why local language, morphology, maps, ads, regulation, AI, and political context all shape how search works outside the Google-centered web.
DuckDuckGo is a privacy-focused search engine and software company founded by Gabriel Weinberg in 2008. It built its identity around not tracking users, showing contextual ads instead of behavioral ads, and offering search and browsing tools for people who want less personal data collection.
Bing is Microsoft's search engine, launched in 2009 as a replacement for Live Search. It has competed with Google through search features, partnerships, advertising, Windows and Edge integration, and more recently Copilot-powered AI search experiences.
AOL Search is the search experience tied to America Online's portal and internet services. Its history shows how a major online gateway moved from directory-style discovery to outsourced web search, first through Google and later through Bing, while also becoming a cautionary case in search privacy.
Google Search is the web search engine that grew from Larry Page and Sergey Brin's Stanford research into the dominant gateway for finding information online. Its history connects PageRank, web crawling, ranking systems, search advertising, SEO, antitrust scrutiny, and the shift toward AI-generated answers.
Yahoo Search grew from Yahoo's human-edited web directory, one of the defining ways people found websites in the 1990s. Its history shows the shift from curated directories to algorithmic search, portal strategy, Google competition, Bing-powered results, and newer AI answer-engine experiments.
Excite was an early web search engine and portal that grew from a Stanford student project called Architext. It became one of the best-known internet brands of the 1990s, then declined after portal competition, the Excite@Home merger, and the dot-com crash.
WebCrawler is an early web search engine created by Brian Pinkerton at the University of Washington in 1994. It became important because it let users search the full text of indexed web pages, helping define what modern web search would become.