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)