Oldest search engine

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by makwarne, Jan 24, 2010.

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    Who is first search engine and when it was discovered and who discovered it?
     
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  2. nivedita011

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    Think it's google, two friends as a part of their academic project
     
    nivedita011, Jan 25, 2010 IP
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    ViolentAJ Well-Known Member

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    Google certainly was not the first. I remember using AskJeeves, Snap, AltaVista, Yahoo, and other search engines long before Google even broke out.

    Here's a good website about the topic.
    http://www.searchenginehistory.com/
     
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    u4mee Banned

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  5. tcherokee

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    Definately not Google... out of the top three search engines, I think Google is the newest, although the biggest :)
     
    tcherokee, Jan 25, 2010 IP
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    Archie is a tool for indexing FTP archives, allowing people to find specific files. It is considered to be the first Internet search engine.
     
    retailsdirect, Jan 25, 2010 IP
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    Google is not the oldest search engine. I think Altavista search engine.
     
    jamesfoster, Jan 25, 2010 IP
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    A search engine is a computer program that act as a way of retrieving information from database...based on certain criteria defined by the users....
     
    mrpaisa, Jan 26, 2010 IP
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    As i know , webcrawler is the first search engine...
     
    gaurav17kumar, Jan 26, 2010 IP
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    Hello Friend,

    I like this answer, i think this marvelous website to know the history of search engine.
     
    monishka, Jan 27, 2010 IP
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    Like a lot of the big sites Google was started by two friends. They were the first and in my opinion the biggest to succeed online to this degree.
     
    TimothyJohn, Jan 27, 2010 IP
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    Nice question..never think of it..really
     
    ameto, Feb 9, 2010 IP
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    yahoo might be a first one..
     
    soman4u, Feb 9, 2010 IP
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    I think google is not the oldest one it was discovered in 1998 by larry page and surgey bin. My opinion is dogpile or web crawler
     
    cellhub, Feb 9, 2010 IP
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    Well in my own opinion the first search engine is AltaVista then after that there comes Yahoo. Google is latest compare to the other search engines and the two friends who make Google didn't expect that their search engine project will be so popular especially nowadays.
     
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    Although Google is not the first...but surely is the winner today.
     
    mithil, Feb 9, 2010 IP
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    according to me altavista is the oldest
     
    madison123, Feb 9, 2010 IP
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    Yahoo in my opinion, I have also heard that at the earlier stages Yahoo took some help from some more up coming search engines
     
    Hosting India, Feb 9, 2010 IP