Monday, March 12, 2012


Web Search Engine
A Web search engine is a tool designed to search for information on the World Wide Web. Information may consist of web pages, images, information and other types of files. Some search engines also mine data available in newsbooks, databases, or open directories. Here are the list of some of the famous search engines presents and entertain on web. List includes the year of launch of name of search engine.
Year
Engine
Event
1993
Aliweb
Launch
1994
WebCrawler
Launch
Infoseek
Launch
Lycos
Launch
1995
AltaVista
Launch
Open Text Web Index
Launch
Magellan
Launch
Excite
Launch
SAPO
Launch
1996
Dogpile
Launch
Inktomi
Founded
HotBot
Founded
Ask Jeeves
Founded
1997
Northern Light
Launch
Yandex
Launch
1998
Google
Launch
1999
AlltheWeb
Launch
GenieKnows
Founded
Naver
Launch
Teoma
Founded
Vivisimo
Founded
2000
Baidu
Founded
2003
Info.com
Launch
2004
Yahoo! Search
Final launch
A9.com
Launch
2005
MSN Search
Final launch
Ask.com
Launch
GoodSearch
Launch
2006
wikiseek
Founded
Quaero
Founded
Ask.com
Launch
Live Search
Launch
ChaCha
Beta Launch
Guruji.com
Beta Launch
2007
wikiseek
Launched
Wikia Search
Launched
2008
Powerset
Launched
Viewzi
Launched
Cuil
Launched
Boogami
Launched
LeapFish
Beta Launch
If you are aware with other search engine and want to listed here, please have a comment with the name of search and url.

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