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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 Education World: The Best Search Engines for Teachers and Students Teaching Search Engines to ESL Students: Avoiding the Avalanche Search Engine Resources Google For Educators Search Engine Quizzes Search Engine Trivia Quiz - Web Search 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 Glossary 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 Decoder - Search-This Pandia Search Central The Deep Web - BrightPlanet |
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