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Another powerful search engine had its genesis in yet another university research
project. Eric Brewer and assistant professor at the University of California at
Berkeley and Paul Gauthier, a computer science graduate student working on a computer
science PhD, started work demonstrating that a cluster of small computers could
achieve the same computing performance as a large supercomputer. They set about
to commercialize this work and founded Inktomi (ink-to-me) Corporation in February
1996. Just three months later, they unleashed the HotBot search engine and quickly
licensed it to one of the hottest web sites around, Wired Magazine’s Hotwired.com.
HotBot proved itself to be one of the most powerful search
engines of its day, with a spider capable of indexing 10 million pages a day.
This meant HotBot not only had the most up to date list of available new sites
and pages, but was capable of re-indexing all previously indexed pages to ensure
they were all up to date as well.
Here is a growing archive of the search engine history:
- 2003
– Microsoft redux
- 2001 – Goodbye GoTo, hello
Overture
- 2000 – Some Web expertise
- 1999 – A winning
search concept
- 1999 – Now that’s fast!
- 1998 – Its a hit! DirectHit
- 1998 –
And in the other corner... MSN
- 1998 – And
in this corner… Google
- 1998
– The Open (source) Directory Project
- 1997 –
Ask Jeeves, the butler did it
- 1997 – GoTo,
What do I bid?
- 1996 – LookSmart
– the Australian connection
- 1996 – HotBot,
one hot bot!
- 1995/96 –
The Northern Light
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- 1995 – AltaVista
- 1995 –
The Meta-search
- 1994-95 –
InfoSeek
- 1994 – Lycos
- 1994 –
The WebCrawler
- 1994 – Yahoo!
- 1994 – A Galaxy
of web pages
- 1993 – The
birth of Excite
- 1993
- The Web’s oldest existing search engine
- 1993 – The
first web robot
- 1993 - Archie’s
pal, Jughead
- 1993
- Veronica, the grandmother of search engines
- 1989
- Archie, the grandfather of all search engines
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