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AltaVista was a web search engine established in 1995. It became one of the most-used early search engines, but lost ground to Google and was purchased by Yahoo! in 2003, which retained the brand, but based all AltaVista searches on its own search engine.
United States. United States Air Force [167] [168] [169] Air Force Systems Command. Air Force Flight Test Center – Edwards AFB, California; 4786th Test Squadron 1965–1970 SR-71 Flight Test Group 1970–1990 Strategic Air Command. 9th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing – Beale AFB, California; 1st Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron 1966–1990
Microsoft Bing, commonly referred to as Bing, is a search engine owned and operated by Microsoft.The service traces its roots back to Microsoft's earlier search engines, including MSN Search, Windows Live Search, and Live Search.
Two Top Fuel dragsters side by side during an NHRA event in 2012. Top Fuel is a type of drag racing whose dragsters are the quickest accelerating racing cars in the world and the fastest sanctioned category of drag racing, with the fastest competitors reaching speeds of 338 miles per hour (544.0 km/h) and finishing the 1,000 foot (304.8 m) runs in 3.62 seconds.
The high speed engine was a precision machine that was well balanced, achievements made possible by advancements in machine tools and manufacturing technology. [50] The high speed engine ran at piston speeds from three to five times the speed of ordinary engines. It also had low speed variability.
When Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web was renamed to Yahoo! in 1994, Yang and Filo said that "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle" was a suitable backronym for this name, but they insisted they had selected the name because they liked the word's general definition, as in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth."
The outermost ring of 20 engines lack gimbal actuators and onboard startup hardware to save weight. [23] These engines are started using attachments on the launch mount and are not reignited for later burns. At full power, all engines combined produce 74,400 kN (16,700,000 lb f) of thrust, more than double that of the Saturn V first stage. [24]
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