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#EndSARS called for disbanding which Nigerian police unit?

Answer

Special Anti-Robbery Squad

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
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#NoDAPL opposed construction of which oil pipeline?

Answer

Dakota Access Pipeline

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
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Which metasearch engine was created by Aaron Flin and launched in November 1996?

Answer

Dogpile

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
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Which search engine did Terra Networks acquire in 2000?

Answer

Lycos

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
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Which Rutgers-born search engine was acquired by Ask Jeeves in 2001?

Answer

Teoma

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
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What was the name of the index created by the World Wide Web Wanderer?

Answer

Wandex

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
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Which 1993 search engine was created by Jonathon Fletcher at the University of Stirling?

Answer

JumpStation

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
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Which early web search engine was created by Oscar Nierstrasz at the University of Geneva?

Answer

W3Catalog

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
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Which Google update released in 2014 focused on local search results?

Answer

Pigeon

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Which Google indexing system announced in 2010 was named for a stimulant?

Answer

Google Caffeine

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Which Google system introduced in 2015 used machine learning to process search results?

Answer

RankBrain

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Which Google update in 2012 targeted webspam and manipulative link schemes?

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Penguin

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