MPPSC 2023 Prelims Q48: Which of the following is NOT a web

Q: What is the answer to MPPSC 2023 Prelims Q48?

D. Correct — D, Yahoo. Yahoo is a web portal that offers services such as search, email (Yahoo Mail), and news — it is a website/service that users visit, not application software used to browse the web. A browser (like the other three options) is needed to access Yahoo in the first place.

MPPSC 2023 Prelims Paper-I · Question 48 of 100

Verified against the official question paper. Answer as per the official MPPSC answer key.

Which of the following is NOT a web browser?

(a)Internet Explorer
(b)Mozilla Firefox
(c)Google Chrome
(d)Yahoo

Answer

Why

Correct — D, Yahoo. Yahoo is a web portal that offers services such as search, email (Yahoo Mail), and news — it is a website/service that users visit, not application software used to browse the web. A browser (like the other three options) is needed to access Yahoo in the first place.

Why the others are wrong

(a)Internet Explorer — Microsoft's legacy web browser — genuine browsing software (since discontinued in favour of Microsoft Edge).
(b)Mozilla Firefox — An actively developed, open-source web browser from the Mozilla Foundation — genuine browsing software.
(c)Google Chrome — Google's web browser, the most widely used browser in the world — genuine browsing software.

Concept

A web browser is application software that lets a user access, retrieve, and render web pages (interpreting HTML/CSS/JavaScript) — examples include Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari, and Opera. A web portal or search engine, by contrast, is a website or online service reached THROUGH a browser; Yahoo is a portal (search + mail + news), not browsing software.

These questions mix a genuine browser name in with a well-known internet brand that is not itself a browser. All four names are familiar, so the actual test is whether the student can tell 'software you browse WITH' apart from 'a service you browse TO'.

Key facts

Web browser = software for accessing and rendering web pages (e.g. Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari, Opera)
Yahoo = a web portal offering search, Yahoo Mail, and news — accessed via a browser, not a browser itself
Internet Explorer was Microsoft's browser, discontinued in favour of Microsoft Edge
Google Chrome is developed by Google and is the world's most widely used browser

Browser or not?

Internet Explorer→Web browser (Microsoft, now discontinued)

Mozilla Firefox→Web browser (Mozilla Foundation)

Google Chrome→Web browser (Google)

Yahoo→NOT a browser — a web portal (search, mail, news)

Yahoo is a web portal/service reached through a browser, not browsing software itself — the other three are genuine browsers.

Study next

Difference between a browser, a search engine, and a web portalOther web browsers: Microsoft Edge, Safari, Opera, BraveInternet Explorer's discontinuation and its replacement by Microsoft EdgeBasic internet terms: URL, HTTP/HTTPS, cookies, cacheComputer-awareness basics tested in CSAT/MPPSC GS papers

Common traps

Assuming any well-known internet company name is automatically a browser
Not distinguishing a portal/search engine (Yahoo, Google Search) from browsing software (Chrome, Firefox)

A recurring MPPSC Paper-I pattern ('which of the following is NOT a web browser') — it appeared with a different distractor set in 2017 too; always check whether the odd option is a portal, search engine, or office-productivity suite rather than a browser.

Related PYQs

No directly related past PYQ was found.

Practice

practice — not a real PYQ
Internet Explorer, once Microsoft's default web browser, was officially discontinued in favour of which browser?
- (a)Google Chrome
- (b)Microsoft Edge
- (c)Mozilla Firefox
- (d)Safari
Answer(b) Microsoft Edge — Internet Explorer was retired in favour of Edge.
practice — not a real PYQ
Which of the following is NOT a web browser?
- (a)Opera
- (b)Vivaldi
- (c)Google Apps
- (d)Mozilla Firefox
Answer(c) Google Apps — a productivity/collaboration suite, not browsing software.