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AOL
Formerly a company known as AOL Inc. and originally known as America Online.
AOL was an early pioneer of the internet (mid-1990s) and was a highly recognized brand on the web. It provided a dial up service and instant messaging. 1993 - added internet access.
Founded by: Marc Seriff, Steve Case, Jim Kimsey, William von Meister -
Yahoo!
Yahoo provided a web portal, a search engine and plenty more (mail, news, videos, etc.)
Founders: Jerry Yang, David Filo -
MSN
A web portal and a collection of internet services. It was originally a dial-up online service that later became an internet service provider.
Founders: (Microsoft) Bill Gates, Paul Allen -
Google
Provided a search engine, online advertising, cloud computing, etc.
Founders: Larry Page, Sergey Brin
Fun fact about the founders: they were PhD Students when they founded Google -
Bing
A service that had Microsofts old search engines in it: MSN Search, Windows Live Search and Live Search. It was a replacement for Live Search.
Founded: Steve Ballmer