Search Engine Timeline

By rjharper
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    Years

  • Whois

    Whois
    Is a query and response protocol that is widely used for querying databases that store the registered users or assignees of an internet resource, such as a domain name, an IP address block, or an autonomous system

  • Archie

    Archie
    First widely used search engine that searched content files, mostly FTP files. Archie was the first tool on the web used for searching ocntents.

  • Gopher protocol

    Gopher protocol
    Gopher protocol is a TCP/IP application layer protocol designed for distributing, searching, and retrieving documents over the Internet.

  • World Wide Web Wanderer

    World Wide Web Wanderer
    The Wanderer was a Perl based web crawler that was first deployed to measure the size of teh web worldwide.

  • JumpStation

    JumpStation
    The first WWW search engine that behaved, and appeared to the user the way current web search engins do.

  • Yahoo!

    Yahoo!
    The site was a directory of other websites, organized in a hierarchy, as opposed to a searchable index of pages.