Search me

There's been an exponential increase in web activity since infor.cern.ch and the World Wide Web Project.
We've already looked at most of the kinds of websites appearing at the very top of the list and it's significant to note that while Google itself and its close rival Yahoo provide a whole host of services, search functionality is a key component.

Google has an overarching account for those signed up with them, Search, Maps, YouTube, Google Play, Gmail. Google Drive, Calendar, Google+, Google Translate and Photos; then if you open up further, Google Shopping, Google Docs, Google Books, Blogger*, Contacts, My Business, Hangout, Keep and Classroom
and more, much more
(*because Google is fond of definitive generic markers, this hit on Blogger takes us to Brain Blogger, not affiliated with Google. To see a site using the Blogger platform there's this very one you're on or many others to choose from)

Yahoo! has its Home page, Yahoo Answers, AFL, Yahoo Be, Yahoo Beauty, Cricket, Currency Converter, Entertainment, Fashion, Finance, Flickr, Yahoo Food, Football, GWN7, Health, Horoscopes, Jobs, Yahoo! Lifestyle, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Music, Yahoo News, NRL, PLUS7, PRIME7, Yahoo Real Estate, Rugby, Yahoo Safely, Search, Yahoo Sport, Yahoo Stock Quotes, Yahoo Technology, Tennis, Yahoo TV, TV Guide, Yahoo Weather, Yahoo7

Baidu, too, offer a multitude of services. 43 by my count.

YouTube, aside from being a subsidiary of Google, is a video sharing service so doesn't do search. Though I imagine there are many others like me who do a search on YouTube for live footage of their favourite band or guest speaker. And so forth.
It's interactive and integrative and therefore starts offering you possibilities as well. But, just as I often go to my Gmail and Yahoo! Mail without looking at any of the other 'sticky' posts, articles and features, I still do a lot of fresh searches when the name of another arcane acts crosses my mind rather than looking at what they highlight.
In the main section we have Home, Trending and Subscriptions links; under Library there's History, Watch Later and Liked videos and the last heading Subscriptions links you to those you have made with enticement to Browse channels, stop by YouTube Red and YouTube Movies.

Facebook has a news feed, Messenger, shortcuts to the groups you're in or games you're playing followed by an invitation to Explore 27 different things within; beginning with events, groups, pages, friend lists, On this Day, manage apps, insights

Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia so search very much comes into it. The whimsical arrangement of children's encyclopedias given way to strict alphabetical order.
While home page has a list of things that happened on 10th October (it's taken me that long to return to my post), Contents tells us there are two ways to look things up in Wikipedia: by searching or by browsing.
Following we have Featured content, Random article (I got the 2012-13 Pakistan Premier League), Donate to Wikipedia, Wikipedia store and - there under Interaction - Community Portal where you get to dabble. 

This all pervading project is not the only one run by Wikimedia Foundation

 Sister Projects

• Commons
• Wikibooks
• Wikiquote
• Wikiversity
• MediaWiki
• Wikidata
• Wikisource
• Wikivoyage
• Meta-Wiki
• Wikinews
• Wikispecies
• Wiktionary

Reddit is described as social news and entertainment and has My Subreddits then Popular, All^, Random, Users, Ask Reddit, Funny, News, Videos, Gaming, Pics etc. It again speaks to the sticky we discussed earlier that Internet marketers are so keen on. In addition to the appeal across demographics but with things web surfers expect to see, there are the quirky and clever things across that banner like Not the Onion; so called because these are true stories that sound like they belong in the satirical paper. Currently starring Tony Abbott [who] says climate change 'could be beneficial' because it saves lives 
 ^"Trump threatens to 'compare IQ tests' with Tillerson after 'moron' report"
on my Random search I brought up Negareddit who/which has 11,945 readers 63 readers here now
or r/aww for being exclusively about cute things like those puppies or bunnies or babies that pop up in many a feed as it is.

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