What Is MediaFire ?

Mediafire

MediaFire is a cloud storage service that helps people store, organize, and share data via the Internet. MediaFire offers free and secure cloud storage so users can store and share data with their customers, colleagues, friends, and family. MediaFire’s Professional and Business plans offer users additional functionality, like company branding tools, analytics, and multi-seat employee accounts.

aqfrom the San Francisco Bay Area who were frustrated by the troublesome process of sharing large files over e-mail and FTP. They created MediaFire to provide the world with the simplest file hosting service for sharing files and images over the internet and launched the first version in October of 2006.

MediaFire is now one of the fastest growing sites on the web with greater than 100% yearly growth. We are still the only file sharing site to offer unlimited downloads, unlimited uploads, download resuming, zero wait times, and more, all for free. With the constant addition of new features and our attention to user feedback, MediaFire remains the leader in online storage.

We are based in the beautiful, tree-laden community of The Woodlands, Texas, just north of Houston. Despite the tantalizing distraction of fine restaurants, entertainment venues, and some of the best shopping in the city, we still manage to keep ourselves in the office (most of the time), hammering away at many new and exciting projects. We are a group of dedicated web and desktop software developers, and our goal each day is to continue to improve your online file sharing experience. We hope you like MediaFire as much as we do, and, of course, we always welcome your suggestions to make it even better.

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Google Social Searcher

Google Social Searcher

Google is a multinational, publicly-traded organization built around the company’s hugely popular search engion. Google’s other enterprises include Internet analytics, cloudcomputing, advertising technologies, and Web app, browser and operating system development.

Google’s roots go back to 1995 when two graduate students, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, met at Stanford University. In 1996, Brin and Page collaborated on a research project that was to eventually become the Google search engine. BackRub, as it was called then (because of its analysis of back links), stirred up interest in the university research community, but didn’t garner any offers from the major portal vendors. Those were early days in terms of mass searching of the Internet; one of the CEOs who turned them away said that users don’t really care about search abilities. Undaunted, the founders scrounged up enough funding to get started, and in September of 1998 began operations from a garage-based office in Menlo Park, California. In December of that same year, PC Magazine listed Google as one of its Top 100 Web Sites and Search Engines for 1998.

Google was chosen for its resemblance to the word googol — a number consisting of a numeral one followed by a hundred zeroes — as a reference to the vast amount of information in the world. Google’s self-stated mission: “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.”

In the first few years of operation, Google’s search engine competition included AltaVista, Yahoo, Excite and Lycos. Within a few years, however, Google became so dominant that the name has become a verb meaning to conduct a Web search; people are as likely to say they “Googled” some information as to say they searched for it.

Google’s headquarters are in Mountainview, California.

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