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Thursday, February 25, 2021
Basic timeline of search engines
This post is a basic timeline of search engines. There are 25 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia
- WHOIS protocol (1982)
- Archie (1990)
- Gopher protocol (1991)
- World Wide Web Wanderer (1993)
- W3Catalog (1993)
- JumpStation (1993)
- Infoseek (1994)
- Aliweb (1994)
- WebCrawler (1994)
- Lycos (1994)
- LookSmart (1995)
- Yahoo! Search (1995)
- Excite (1995)
- AltaVista (1995)
- Ask Jeeves (1996)
- Google (1997)
- Yandex (1997)
- MSN Search (1998)
- Baidu (2000)
- Sogou (2004)
- Mojeek (2004)
- Info.com (2004)
- DuckDuckGo (2008)
- Bing (2009)
- Ecosia (2009)