Question

For at least five of these uses of computer networking, use the Internet or other sources to identify the market-leading software applications used to obtain the required functionality (for example, to serve web pages, the market-leading software is the Apache web server). In a table, provide the following information for the five uses: the application (use) category, the market-leading software application in the category, and a paragraph or two about the strengths of the selected software application. (You can use the marketing information from the application’s website to describe the strengths of the application.)

Answer 1

The usage of internet today is tremendous. Everyone opt internet for everything. Even to get a calculation done, people choose Google over a calculator. So there are several kind of service providers in the network. Lets look to some of the application and the leading company in that field.

1. Search engine - Google - With the most simple and light user interface combined with very fast retrieval of data from almost all available servers from the world, Google corporation is the leading search engine in the internet. People do open their Google search bar for every time they need an information. To learn, to entertain, to do business like everything the first search is done in Google search bar.
2. Online shopping - Amazon - Undoubtfuly, Amazon is the biggest webstore out there in the internet today. Amazon have almost everything that one may think to buy from the internet. Amazon provides the serrvice almost all over the globe and thats why they are this huge and staying on the top rank always. They started as a online book store and later started to sell everything. There are things that are Amazon exclusives and are only available at amazon store. They later had their own brands in different type of products like electronics and others.
3. Cloud storage - Google drive - The services from Google are top notch and so as their cloud storage system. Providing a free space of 15GB, they are the best cloud storage system available in the internet today. Google drive offers many handy tools and an awesome user interface to work with. It also supports many features to their other services like, we can send an email of any size with the file uploaded in the Google drive.
4. Video platform - Yutube - As a service from Google, Yutube holds the rank 1 in the video platform. People do invest a lot of time on entertainment today. Especially on videos than audios. Yutube also serve as a good platform to earn money for video creators. This encourages people to create more and more videos and the service is completely free. Yutube is now also being the best platform to do advertising. As in reports, about 1.8 billion users logging into Yutube per month. All these make this platform the market leader in the segment.
5. Social media - Facebook - Everyone are living in a virtual society today. People are making new friends and community over social medias. Facebook, the revolutionary social media platform is still the market leader. Facebook had baught their competors Whatsap and Instagram and now everything is under Facebook. This made Facebook more powerful and unbeatable.