Examples of Web 2.0.... What is it?

Web 2.0 examples are right throughout the Internet. They comprise most of the everyday common websites or web applications used by almost everyone.

An example would be google.com.

This searches through websites all across the web looking for the keywords typed into the search engine. Before this more simple search engines such as altavista. Another example would be Wikipedia. This replaces the other online encyclopedias where it is one main publisher entering the information. Wikipedia allows users all over the world to input their own information to the site which in turn makes it grow at a tremendous speed, constantly updated. Finally another example would be mp3 websites. Before these during the web 1.0 era, people would be paying the big companies to either simply by the cd or download the mp3 at a slow rate. Now, people add the files themselves and are free to download, along with the websites, programmes such as , in the early days, napster, lime wire and other p2p programmes allow users to again simply share the files with one another for free. This is an example of web 2.0 becuase survival has to do with the users and not the main business owners.