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Web search engine supporting natural language queries: Altavista is launched. This is a first among web search engines in many ways: it has unlimited bandwidth, allows natural language queries, has search tips, and allows people to add or delete their domains in 24 hours. [13] [14] 1996 New web search engine
Infoseek's Ultraseek Server software technology, an enterprise search engine product, was sold in 2000 to Inktomi. [1] Under Inktomi, Ultraseek Server was renamed "Inktomi Enterprise Search". In December 2002 (prior to the Yahoo! acquisition of Inktomi), the Ultraseek product suite was sold to a competitor Verity Inc, who re-established the ...
Most search engines employ methods to rank the results to provide the "best" results first. How a search engine decides which pages are the best matches, and what order the results should be shown in, varies widely from one engine to another. [35] The methods also change over time as Internet usage changes and new techniques evolve.
WebCrawler was highly successful early on. [15] At one point, it was unusable during peak times due to server overload. [16] It was the second most visited website on the internet in February 1996, but it quickly dropped below rival search engines and directories such as Yahoo!, Infoseek, Lycos, and Excite in 1997.
Alan Emtage (born November 27, 1964) is a Bajan-Canadian computer scientist who conceived and implemented the first version of Archie, a pre-Web Internet search engine for locating material in public FTP archives. It is widely considered the world's first Internet search engine.
Wikiseek was a search engine that indexed English Wikipedia pages and pages that were linked to from Wikipedia articles. [1] The search engine was funded by a Palo Alto based Internet startup SearchMe and was officially launched on January 17, 2007. [1] [2] Most of the funding came from Sequoia Capital. [3]
Microsoft Bing, commonly referred to as Bing, is a search engine owned and operated by Microsoft.The service traces its roots back to Microsoft's earlier search engines, including MSN Search, Windows Live Search, and Live Search.
Infospace, Inc. was an American company that offered private label search engine, online directory, and provider of metadata feeds. The company's flagship metasearch site was Dogpile and its other notable consumer brands were WebCrawler and MetaCrawler. After a 2012 rename to Blucora, the InfoSpace business unit was sold to data management ...