List of top Web Search Engines

A Web search engine is a tool designed to search for information on the World Wide Web. Information may consist of web pages, images, information and other types of files. Some search engines also mine data available in newsbooks, databases, or open directories. Here are the list of some of the famous search engines presents and entertain on web. List includes the year of launch of name of search engine.

Year	Engine	Event
1993	Aliweb	Launch
1994	WebCrawler	Launch
	Infoseek	Launch
	Lycos	Launch
1995	AltaVista	Launch
	Open Text Web Index	Launch
	Magellan	Launch
	Excite	Launch
	SAPO	Launch
1996	Dogpile	Launch
	Inktomi	Founded
	HotBot	Founded
	Ask Jeeves	Founded
1997	Northern Light	Launch
	Yandex	Launch
1998	Google	Launch
1999	AlltheWeb	Launch
	GenieKnows	Founded
	Naver	Launch
	Teoma	Founded
	Vivisimo	Founded
2000	Baidu	Founded
2003	Info.com	Launch
2004	Yahoo! Search	Final launch
	A9.com	Launch
2005	MSN Search	Final launch
	Ask.com	Launch
	GoodSearch	Launch
2006	wikiseek	Founded
	Quaero	Founded
	Ask.com	Launch
	Live Search	Launch
	ChaCha	Beta Launch
	Guruji.com	Beta Launch
2007	wikiseek	Launched
	Wikia Search	Launched
2008	Powerset	Launched
	Viewzi	Launched
	Cuil	Launched
	Boogami	Launched
	LeapFish	Beta Launch

If you are aware with other search engine and want to listed here, please have a comment with the name of search and url.

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Most Important Deserts of World

Do you know the most famous and important deserts of the world? Which and how many parts of theEarth is called deserts and what are their names? Let see below to know about the deserts..

Sahara	N.Africa (Includes the Libyan and the Nubian Desert)
Australian	Australian (Includes  Gibson, Simpson,Victorian,Great Sandy)
Arabian	Arab Countries (Includes Rub’al Khali & An-Nafad of S.Arabia and Dast-e-Lut & Dast-e-Kavir of Iran)
Kalahari	Africa (mainly in Botswana)
Gobi	Mongolia
Atacama	Central Chile
Patagonian	Argentina
Namib	Namibia
Takla Makan	Sinkiang,China
Karakum	Turkmenistan
Sonoran	Arizona and California (U.S.A.)
Thar	India

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Foreign Towns Associated with Famous Industries

Here in this post we will get awareness about the foreign towns and cities associated with famous and popular industries of the World. In the list you will get the name of town and its country and associated industry name.

Town (Country)	Associated Industry
Baku (Azerbaijan)	Petroleum
Bangkok (Thailand)	Ship building
Belfast (Ireland)	Ship building
Buenos Aires (Azerbaijan)	Meat
Cadiz (Portugal)	Cork
Chicago (U.S.A)	Agricultural implements, Meat
Cologne (Germany)	Cotton and woolen industries
Dhaka (Bangladesh)	Jute
Detroit (U.S.A)	Motor cars
Dresden (Germany)	Optical and photographic apparatus
Glasgow (Great Britain)	Machinery
Havana (Cuba)	Tobacco, Cigars
Hollywood (U.S.A)	Film industry
Johannesburg (S. Africa)	Gold  mines
Kimberley (S. Africa)	Diamond mining
Leeds (England)	Woolen goods
Lyons (France)	Silk industries
Manchester (England)	Cotton industry
Mauritius (Indian Ocean)	Fishing, Shipping, Sugar
Milan (Italy)	Silk
Morocco (North Africa)	Leather
Munich (Germany)	Lenses
New Orleans (U.S.A)	Cotton industry
Osaka (Japan)	Cotton fabrics
Pittsburg (U.S.A)	Iron and steel
Plymouth (England)	Ship-building
Sheffield  (England)	Cutlery
Venice (Italy)	Glass manufacturing
Vienna (Austria)	Glass manufacturing
Wellington (New Zealand)	Dairy Product

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List of Important Indian Towns on the River Bank

In the previous post we have gone through the list of Nick Names of Important Indian Places andImportant Cities on the River Bank of all world. Here you will find the list of important Indian towns on the river banks:

Town/City	Name of River
Allahabad	At the confluence of the Ganga and Yamuna
Patna	Ganga
Varanasi	Ganga
Kanpur	Ganga
Hardwar	Ganga
Badrinath	Alaknanda
Agra	Yamuna
Delhi	Yamuna
Mathura	Yamuna
Ferozpur	Satluj
Ludhiana	Satluj
srinagar	Jhelum
Lucknow	Gomti
Jaunpur	Gomti
Ayodhya	Saryu
Bareilly	Ram Ganga
Ahmedabad	Sabarmati
Kota	Chambal
Jabalpur	Narmada
Panji	Mandavi
Ujjain	Kshipra
Surat	Tapti
Jamshedpur	Swarnarekha
Dibrugarh	Brahmaputra
Guwahati	Brahmaputra
Kolkata	Hooghly
Sambalpur	Mahanadi
Cuttack	Mahanadi
Serirangapatam	Cauvery
Hyderabad	Musi
Nasik	Godavari
Vijayvada	Krishna
Curnool	Tungabhadra
tiruchurapalli	Cauvery

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Nick Names of Important Indian Places

Let’s go through the list of famous places of India. What is their nick names? How they known? Here is the list of Important Indian Places:

Nick Name	Place
Golden city	Amritsar
Manchester of India	Ahmedabad
City of seven islands	Mumbai
Queen of Arabian sea	Cochin
Space city	Bangalore
Garden City of India	Bangalore
Siliccn vallaey of India	Bangalore
Electronic city of India	Bangalore
Pink city	Jaipur
Gateway of India	Mumbai
Twin city	Hyderabad –Sikandarabad
City of festivals	Madurai
Deccan Queen	Pune
City of buildings	Kolkata
Dakshin Queen	Godavari
Old Ganga	Godavari
Egg bowls of India	Andhra Pradesh
Soya region	Madhaya Pradesh
Manchester of the South	Coimbator
City of Nawabs	Lucknow
Venice of the east	Cochin
Sorrow of Bengal	Damodar river
Sorrow of Bihar	Kosi river
Blue Mountains	Nilgiri
Queen of the Mountains	Mussoorie (Uttarakhand)
Sacred river	Ganga
Hollywood of India	Mumbai
City of Castles	kolkata
State of five rivers	Punjab
City of weavers	Panipat
City of lakes	Srinagar
Steel city of India	Jamshedpur (Called Tatanagar)
City of temples	Varanasi
Manchester of the  north	Kanpur
City of Rallies	New Delhi
Heaven of India	Jammu & Kashmir
Boston of India	Ahmedabad
Garden of spices of India	Kerala
Switzerland of India	Kashmir
Abode of the God	Prayag (Allahabad)
Pittsburg of India	Jamshedpur

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