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Google: A Dot-Com Success Story
Search Engine Now Industry Standard, but Competitors Close In
 Listen to Elaine Korry's report
Lava lamps greet visitors to Google headquarters in California's Silicon Valley.
Photo: Amy Walters, NPR News
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June 21, 2003 -- In the years since the dot-com industry crashed, firms such as pets.com and wine.com have vanished, leaving behind wrecked dreams and empty office buildings. But as NPR's Elaine Korry reports, the Internet also spawned some remarkable success stories -- namely the search engine company called Google.
Google is thriving and its influence is felt across the globe. In five years, this start-up has forever changed the way millions of people find information on the Internet. However, formidable rivals like Yahoo! and Microsoft have begun to close in.
Top search engines:
» Google -- Still the top choice for its power and relevant search results.
» Yahoo! -- The Web's oldest "directory" of listings.
» MSN Search -- Microsoft making huge inroads in the search and directory categories.
» AOL Search -- Still the biggest online community.
» AskJeeves -- Uses the Teoma search engine, which it owns.
» HotBot -- A search site leader in the late 1990s.
» Lycos -- One of the oldest search engines on the Web, launched 1994.
» LookSmart -- A human-compiled directory of sites.
Source: SearchEngine.com, SearchEngineWatch.com
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