Who was the first search engine?

Was it google?
I remember askjeeves.com was working like search engine, was it ? if not how it was working ?

 

Well, as PHP was the first programming language to suit online needs and to interact with HTML, and it came in 1994, I guess Yahoo and Google are both the oldest (as they date back to 1994), but I'm not sure.

 

It depends what do you mean by 'search engine' but Altavista claims, their have had first worldwide index of webpages ('95) http://www.altavista.com/about/

 

MariusD just said that Google and Yahoo go back to 94

 

According to a search, aliweb is the oldest, established in 93'

 

I didn't know that google was actually that "old"

 

yeah i too think google nd yahoo were

 

Yes, Aliweb is the oldest. Lycos was the first in widespread usage. Google came long after them, in 1998. Yahoo was not a search engine until 2004.

AltaVista was the "best" search engine until Google came around, so their claim above is probably true.

 

So how askjeeves worked ?

 

It looks like the first "search engine" was Archie created in 1990 by Alan Emtage.

Source: isrl.uiuc.edu/~chip/projects/timeline/1990archie.htm
-- Not sure how reliable of a source this is...

-- Nathan Enns

 

Archie was the first Internet search engine but it wasn't a web search engine.

 

Yeah... I didn't think his question specified "web" search engine. Sorry if I misunderstood.

If we are talking about just web search engines, wouldn't it be Wandex? Although it seems Aliweb was released shortly after Wandex, if not at the same time.

mkgray.com:8000/blog/Personal/Full-Circle-to-Google.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engines

-- Nathan Enns

 

Not sure which is the first but the first search engine which I knew is google and then yahoo.

 

another old search engine i used along time ago excite

 

yeah well he's wrong Google are one of the newest search engines. Yahoo were around way before google.

 

Web crawler is pretty old but I don't think it's the first.

 

Yahoo were around, but they were a directory service, not a search engine.

 

internet SE is different from Web SE? do you mean ISE is used on desktop as application?

 

I think Aliweb is the oldest. Google is quite new but the best.