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The history of Internet search engines spans nearly 20 years, from 1990 to the present. The first search engines patrolled public directories, which contained only text and could not be searched using such as techniques as adding "AND" or "OR" to the search string. As search engines became more advanced, graphics and keywords... more »
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A web search engine is a tool designed to search for information on the World Wide Web. The search results are usually presented in a list and are commonly called hits. The information may consist of web pages, images, information and other types of files. Some search engines also mine data available in databases or open directories. Unlike Web directories, which are maintained by human editors, search engines operate Timeline ([[List of search engines|full list)
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!|Year
!|Engine
!|Event
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| rowspan"2" |1993
||[[JumpStation
||Launch
|-
| rowspan"3" |1994
||[[Infoseek
||Launch
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||[[AltaVista
||Launch
|-
||Open Text Web Index
||Launch
|-
||[[Excite
||Launch
|-
||[[Dogpile
||Launch
|-
||[[HotBot
||Founded
|-
||[[Northern Light Group|Northern Light
||Launch
|-
||[[Google search|Google
||Launch
|-
|rowspan"5"|1999
||[[GenieKnows
||Founded
|-
||[[Teoma
||Founded
|-
||[[Baidu
||Founded
|-
||[[Info.com
||Launch
|-
| rowspan"3" |2004
||[[A9.com
||Launch
|-
||[[MSN Search
||Final launch
|-
||[[GoodSearch
|| Launch
|-
||[[wikiseek
||Founded
|-
||[[Ask.com
|| Launch
|-
||[[ChaCha (search engine)|ChaCha
|| Beta Launch
|-
||[[wikiseek
||Launched
|-
||[[Wikia Search
||Launched
|-
||[[Powerset (company)|Powerset
||Launched
|-
||[[Viewzi
||Launched
|-
||[[Boogami
||Launched
|-
||[[Forestle
||Launched
|-
||[[Sperse! Search
||Launched
|-
||[[Bing (search engine)|Bing
||Launched
|-
||[[Yebol
||Beta Launch
|-
||Mugurdy
||Launched
|}
Before there were web search engines there was a complete list of all webservers. The list was edited by Tim Berners-Lee and hosted on the CERN webserver. One historical snapshot from 1992 remains.http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/DataSourc read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web+search+engine
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