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  2. Timeline of web search engines - Wikipedia

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    Robin Li developed the RankDex site-scoring algorithm for search engines results page ranking [23] [24] [25] and received a US patent for the technology. [26] It was the first search engine that used hyperlinks to measure the quality of websites it was indexing, [27] predating the very similar algorithm patent filed by Google two years later in ...

  3. Search engine - Wikipedia

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    The first internet search engines predate the debut of the Web in December 1990: WHOIS user search dates back to 1982, [8] and the Knowbot Information Service multi-network user search was first implemented in 1989. [9] The first well documented search engine that searched content files, namely FTP files, was Archie, which debuted on 10 ...

  4. Archie (search engine) - Wikipedia

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    Archie is a tool for indexing FTP archives, allowing users to more easily identify specific files. It is considered the first Internet search engine. [2] The original implementation was written in 1990 by Alan Emtage, then a postgraduate student at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

  5. Alan Emtage - Wikipedia

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    Alan Emtage (born November 27, 1964) is a Bajan-Canadian computer scientist who conceived and implemented the first version of Archie, a pre-Web Internet search engine for locating material in public FTP archives. It is widely considered the world's first Internet search engine.

  6. Where Are They Now? The Search Engines That Time Forgot - AOL

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    A one-time giant in the internet world, Excite was founded in 1994 by six Stanford students. While also a general search engine, Excite allowed internet users to visit a single page and see news ...

  7. List of search engines - Wikipedia

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    Cross-platform open-source desktop search engine. Unmaintained since 2011-06-02 [9]. LGPL v2 [10] Terrier Search Engine: Linux, Mac OS X, Unix: Desktop search for Windows, Mac OS X (Tiger), Unix/Linux. MPL v1.1 [11] Tracker: Linux, Unix: Open-source desktop search tool for Unix/Linux GPL v2 [12] Tropes Zoom: Windows: Semantic Search Engine (no ...

  8. Today in History: Birthday of the Google internet search engine

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    Google is turning 17! It seems like such a gigantic company should be much older, but it wasn't even two decades ago that the very first iteration of today's most used search engine went online.

  9. AOL

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    The search engine that helps you find exactly what you're looking for. Find the most relevant information, video, images, and answers from all across the Web. AOL.