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This page provides a full timeline of web search engines, starting from the WHOis in 1982, the Archie search engine in 1990, and subsequent developments in the field. It is complementary to the history of web search engines page that provides more qualitative detail on the history.
Archie is a tool for indexing FTP archives, allowing users to more easily identify specific files. It is considered the first Internet search engine. [2] The original implementation was written in 1990 by Alan Emtage, then a postgraduate student at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
The first web search engine was Archie, created in 1990 [67] by Alan Emtage, a student at McGill University in Montreal. The author originally wanted to call the program "archives", but had to shorten it to comply with the Unix world standard of assigning programs and files short, cryptic names such as grep, cat, troff, sed, awk, perl, and so on.
As the world today mostly recognizes Google as a verb for search engines, it is difficult to remember a time
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WebCrawler is an early search engine for the Web and the first with full-text searching. [25] It was created by Brian Pinkerton, a doctoral candidate at the University of Washington. It launched in June 1994. [179]
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Yahoo grew rapidly throughout the 1990s. Like many search engines and web directories, Yahoo added a web portal. By 1998, Yahoo was the most popular starting point for web users [31] and the human-edited Yahoo Directory the most popular search engine. [24] It also made many high-profile acquisitions.