Railway GK Questions 2026

Mosaic was written at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications in the United States by a team that included Marc Andreessen, and it was the first browser to show pictures inside the page alongside the text instead of in a separate window, which is why it is credited with carrying…

The method counts the links pointing at a page and weighs each link by the importance of the page it comes from, so that a page linked by many respected pages rises in the results.

A crawler, also called a spider or a bot, starts from a list of addresses, fetches each page, follows the links it finds and hands the pages over to be indexed; without it a search engine would have nothing to search.

The top-level domain is the last part of a domain name, and.org was set aside for organisations, particularly non-commercial and non-profit bodies, when the first domains were created.

A cookie holds a few lines of text, such as a session number or a chosen language, and the browser sends it back to the same site on the next visit, which is how a shopping cart or a logged-in session survives from one page to the next.

HTTPS is the HyperText Transfer Protocol wrapped in SSL or TLS encryption, so that what passes between the browser and the server cannot be read on the way; the padlock shown in the address bar means the page came over HTTPS.

Apple released Safari in 2003 and ships it with its computers, tablets and phones; it runs on Apple's own WebKit engine.

The two were research students at Stanford University in the United States, and the ranking method they built, PageRank, is named after Larry Page rather than after web pages, a point papers like to test.

The browser engine, also called the layout or rendering engine, is the part that turns the HTML received from a server into the page you see, and Chrome has used Blink since 2013; Opera and Microsoft Edge use the same engine today, which is why pages look alike in all…

A URL is the complete address of a resource on the Web, and it has three visible parts: the protocol, such as https, the domain name, such as www.example.in, and the path to the particular page inside that site.

He was a British scientist working at CERN in Switzerland when he wrote the proposal for the World Wide Web in 1989, and he built the first browser, WorldWideWeb, later renamed Nexus; the first website went live in 1991.

The words, meaning touch the sky with glory, come from the eleventh chapter of the Gita, where the universal form of the Lord is described, and they were adopted as the motto of the Indian Air Force.

Speaking at Patna in 1974 during the student movement in Bihar, he asked for a total revolution covering social, economic, political, cultural and educational life, and the movement he led became the gathering point for the opposition to the government of the day.

Two words promising the removal of poverty carried her to a very large majority in the general election of that year, and the phrase has been quoted in Indian politics ever since.

He repeated the line constantly in his lectures to Indian youth after returning from the Parliament of Religions at Chicago in 1893, and the thought is drawn from the Katha Upanishad.

The full line is Satyameva Jayate Nanritam, meaning truth alone triumphs, not falsehood, and the first two words were inscribed in Devanagari below the Lion Capital of Ashoka when the State Emblem was adopted in 1950.

He wrote the song in Sanskritised Bengali and placed it in his novel Anandamath, published in 1882; it was sung at the Congress session of 1896 and became the chief song of the national movement, and the Constituent Assembly later gave it the same honour as the national anthem.

He used the line while raising and addressing the Indian National Army in South East Asia during the Second World War, asking his soldiers for the ultimate sacrifice in return for the freedom of the country; Dilli Chalo and Jai Hind come from the same years and the same army.

The Urdu poet and nationalist, who was also among the first to demand complete independence, coined the phrase in the early nineteen twenties, and it means long live the revolution.

A socialist leader who later became Mayor of Bombay, he coined Simon Go Back for the protests that met the Simon Commission in 1928, and in 1942 he suggested the two words Quit India, which the Congress adopted as the name of its last great movement.