History Of Search Engines

The first Search Engine was Developed as a school project by Alan Emtage, a student at McGill University in Montreal.The goal of all search engines is to find and organize distributed data found on the Internet.

Major Search Engines found in use today originated in Development between 1993 and 1998.

1.Excite – Born in 1993

http://excite.com/

2.Yahoo! - Born in 1994

http://yahoo.com

3.WebCrawler – Born in 1994

http://www.webcrawler.com/   Purchased by InfoSpace http://infospace.com

4.Lycos – Born in 1994

http://lycos.com/

5.Infoseek – Born in 1994

1998, 43% of Infoseek was bought by Disney

Infoseek’s technology was then merged with Starwave’s to form the Go.com network. In July 1999, Disney had a 72% interest in Go.com and Disney’s media interest included Disney.com, Family.com, ABC.com, ABCNews.com, and ESPN.com.

http://go.com/

6.AltaVista – Born in 1995

www.altavista.com

AltaVista became the first Internet search engine to offer image, audio, and video search as part of a new range of multimedia functionalities.

In February 2003, Overture purchased AltaVista for $140 million.

7.Inktomi – Born in 1996

Inktomi was founded in February 1996 by Eric Brewer.In March 2003, Inktomi was purchased by Yahoo! for $235 million. Inktomi continued to provide results to Yahoo! rival MSN Search.

8.Ask Jeeves (now Ask) – Born in 1997

Ask was developed in 1996 by Garret Gruener and David Warthen and launched in 1997 as Ask Jeeves. In 2006, the “Jeeves” name was removed

http://www.ask.com/ or www.askjeeves.com/

9.Google – Born in 1997

Google was founded in 1998 as another school project at Stanford University in California.

http://www.google.com/

10. MSN Search (now Windows Live) – Born in 1998

MSN Search was renamed Windows Live in 2006.

http://www.msn.com/

11.Overture – Born in 1998

Overture purchased by Yahoo! in 2003.

12.AllTheWeb – Born in 1999

AllTheWeb was launched in 1999 .
In April 2003, ALLTheWeb was bought by Overture for $70 million in 2003 and rolled into Yahoo!