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Search Engine Milestones
1990: Archie - the first Internet search engine, was written by Alan Emtage, Bill Heelan, and J. Peter Deutsch, students at McGill University in Montreal.

1993: World Wide Web Wanderer - the first web robot (Perl-based), created by Matthew Gray from MIT.

1994: WebCrawler - first full text crawler-based search engine which let users for the first time to search for any word in any webpage.

1994: Yahoo - created by Jerry Yang and David Filo who were electrical engineering graduate students at Stanford University.

1994: robots.txt - Invented by Martijn Koster when working for WebCrawler - used to prevent web robots from crawling all or a part of a website.

1995: Altavista - created by researchers at Digital Equipment Corporation, one of the most popular search engines but its popularity declined with the rise of Google.

1997: Google - developed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two PhD students from Stanford University.

1998: PageRank - developed at Stanford University by Larry Page (hence the name Page-Rank) and Sergey Brin as part of a research project about a new kind of search engine - that information on the web could be ordered in a hierarchy by link popularity.

1998: MSN - launched by Microsoft using search results from Inktomi. MSN was rebranded Bing in 2009.

2003: AdSense: allows publishers to serve automatic ads that are targeted to site content and audience.


Search Engines for Kids
Search engine for Kids, Parents and Teachers!
Internet Search Engines for Kids
Top 5 search engines for kids">Top 5 search engines for kids
Kid Safe Search Engine - KidRex
Are there any search engines for children? - BBC
Search Engine for Kids and Teens

Search Engines for Teachers
Google For Educators
Education World: The Best Search Engines for Teachers and Students
Teaching Search Engines to ESL Students: Avoiding the Avalanche
Search Engine Resources

Search Engine Quizzes
Search Engine Trivia Quiz - Web Search
Google Quiz
Web Search Quiz
Search Engine Quiz

FAQs
Answers to Your Questions About SEO, SEM, and Internet Marketing in General
Zoom Search Engine FAQ - Howto's
Internet Search Engines and Why They Matter
Search Engine FAQ - SEO Help
Search Engine Optimization FAQ

Glossaries and Dictionaries
Webmaster World Glossary - Webmaster World News
The Search Engine Marketing Glossary
Search Engine Terms
Search Engine Dictionary: Glossary of Search Engine Terms
Search Engine Marketing (SEM) Glossary

Timelines
Timeline of Search Engine History
Search Engine Timeline
History of Search Engines: From 1945 to Google Today
Google’s History Timeline

Science Fair Projects and Experiments
Internet & Computer Security Fair Projects
K-12 Internet Experiments and Background Information

General Search Engine Resources
searchenginewatch.com
Search Engine Showdown
Search Engine World
Search Engine Decoder - Search-This
Pandia Search Central
The Deep Web - BrightPlanet

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