Kurrently is a/an:

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Kurrently is a/an:

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Correct — A, Search Engine. Kurrently was an early real-time search engine built to search live social-media posts as they were published — a purpose-built query-and-retrieve tool, which is the defining function of a search engine. It was not a platform for hosting user profiles and connections (a social networking site), for one publisher's running log of articles (a blog), or for open threaded community discussion (an internet forum).

Why the other options are wrong — (b) A social networking site (e.g., Facebook) is built around user profiles and connections between people — Kurrently did not host social profiles; it searched content.  (c) A blog is a publisher's (or small team's) running log of articles or posts — Kurrently was not a content-publishing platform.  (d) A forum is a threaded discussion board where users post and reply within topics — Kurrently was not a discussion venue; it was a search/query tool.

Concept: Web services are commonly classified by their core function: a search engine indexes and retrieves content in response to a query (general engines like Google, or specialised ones like Kurrently for real-time social search); a social networking site connects people via profiles and relationships; a blog is a periodically-updated publishing platform; a forum is a threaded discussion board. The same underlying content (e.g., social-media posts) can be searched, published, or discussed depending on which type of tool is being used.

State PCS 2024 Q43 — Science & Technology PYQ with Answer

State PCS 2024 Q43 — Science & Technology PYQ with Answer