Google Top Dog Per CNN Poll

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Thursday, 05 January 2006

According to a recent CNN.com poll, Google is the most significant development on the Internet, Nearly 18,000 CNN.com users voted in an online survey, as a portion of Spark's glance back at the Web's defining moments since Tim Berners-Lee launched the multimedia branch of the Internet in 1990 CNN.com ran a list of the top 10 defining moments during the three-week survey, and asked their users whether they agreed with the list. About 41 percent (7,198) agreed that the start of Google had the largest impact on the World Wide Web. Founded by college students Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google has clearly redefined search by inventing their advertising model. They have created a vast business empire. Spark’s report placed free e-mail Hotmail as number 2, but users didn’t agree, they placed it as 6th. Spark placed the development of free e-mail service Hotmail at No. 2 on the list, but online users disagreed, placing it sixth with 1,000 votes. Instead, voters decided the dotcom boom, where trillions of dollars were made and lost between the years 1995-2001, with 19 percent (3,420) selecting the moment as the most significant in the World Wide Web’s history. The lowest ranking by voters in the poll was AOL's Live 8 broadcast in July 2005; which had five million people watching the poverty awareness concerts online, setting an Internet record. Only 92 voters thought the event as the Web's defining moment. Spark had placed it seventh on its list. Third on the poll was the increase of citizen journalism since September11, 2001, which set the Web on fire with amateur video and websites.. Other CNN.com users wrote to say they disagreed with the list. Some felt that e-mail was the most important. Others wrote to point out that the Internet had been here a long time and that the Web was only a small part of its development. Spark's special was based only on the World Wide Web’s history, which, of course, has made the Internet more accessible to the public. The Web is here to stay, and obviously has a large place in today’s society, for both personal use, and business. By Susan Evans Jump2Top.Com Search Engine Optimization Company

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