Search Engines and the Internet

Created by Adam Shell

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(note: “Launch” refers only to web availability of original crawl-based web search engine results.)

1. 1993: Aliweb, Launch
2. 1994: WebCrawler, Launch;Infoseek, Launch;Lycos, Launch
3. 1995: AltaVista, Launch(part of DEC);Excite, Launch
4. 1996: Dogpile, Launch;Inktomi, Founded;Ask Jeeves, Founded
5. 1997: Northern Light, Launch
6. 1998: Google, Launch
7. 1999: AlltheWeb,Launch;Baidu, Founded
8. 2000: Singingfish, Launch;Teoma, Founded;Vivisimo,Founded
9. 2003: Info.com, Launch;Objects Search, Launch
10. 2004: Yahoo! Search, Final launch (first original results);MSN Search, Beta launch
11. 2005: MSN Search, Final launch
12. 2006: Quaero, Founded;Ask.com, Launch;Windows Live Search, Launch

see Looksmart

The economist a month ago had an article regarding search engines. When a user searches video, image or music files (basically any non-text file) all search engines at the moment can only search key words related to the files name. Currently a number of companies are in the development stage of creating a search applications which searches within the file such as words sung in a song or sentences said within a movie. Soon we may even see search engines which when you type for example beach they will return a picture containing images from a beach.