[填空题]The address of ". co. EC" is one of the online sites necessarily based in the European Community.

[填空题]The address of ". co. EC" is one of the online sites necessarily based in the European Community.

[单项选择]One thing that distinguishes the online world from the real one is that it is very easy to find things. To find a copy of The Economist in print, one has to go to a news-stand, which may or may not carry it. Finding it online, though, is a different proposition. Just go to Google, type in "economist" and you will be instantly directed to economist.com. Though it is difficult to remember now, this was not always the case. Indeed, until Google, now the world’s most popular search engine, came on to the scene in September 1998, it was not the case at all. As in the physical world, searching online was a hit-or-miss affair.
Google was vastly better than anything that had come before: so much better, in fact, that it changed the way many people use the web. Almost overnight, it made the web far more useful, particularly for nonspecialist users, many of whom now regard Google as the internet’s front door. The recent fuss over Google’s stock market flotation obscures its far wider soci
A. its unique mathematical recipe
B. the popularity of its brand among users
C. that it was the first search engine in the world
D. its stock market flotation