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Have you ever come across a computer technology that Microsoft didn’t
want a piece of? Didn’t think so.
When it comes to search engines, Microsoft is right in the thick of things
with MSN Search. This search engine was launched around the time
Microsoft released the second version of its Internet Explorer browser and Netscape
was still the dominant browser player.
MSN Search was
part of the MSN portal and was a search tool for portal customers. When it was
announced in 1997 that Microsoft was developing its “own” search engine,
the war drums were sounded with fears that the project code-named “Yukon”
would crush players like Excite and Yahoo!
– but it didn’t quite happen.
Still, MSN Search is still the world’s most used search engine today,
largely because it is the default search engine in the Internet Explorer browser.
The interface may be Microsoft’s but the reality is that the search results
are generated by Inktomi.
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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