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2. Gigablast - Wikipedia

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   Gigablast was an American free and open-source web search engine and directory. Founded in 2000, it was an independent engine and web crawler, [6] developed and maintained by Matt Wells, a former Infoseek employee and New Mexico Tech graduate. [7] During early April 2023, the website went offline without warning and without any official statement.

3. Yahoo! - Wikipedia

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   Like many search engines and web directories, Yahoo added a web portal, putting it in competition with services including Excite, Lycos, and America Online. By 1998, Yahoo was the most popular starting point for web users, [27] and the human-edited Yahoo Directory the most popular search engine, [15] receiving 95 million page views per day ...

4. Archie (search engine) - Wikipedia

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   Archie (search engine) Archie is a tool for indexing FTP archives, allowing users to more easily identify specific files. It is considered the first Internet search engine. [2] The original implementation was written in 1990 by Alan Emtage, then a postgraduate student at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

5. Search engine (computing) - Wikipedia

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   In computing, a search engine is an information retrieval software system designed to help find information stored on one or more computer systems.Search engines discover, crawl, transform, and store information for retrieval and presentation in response to user queries.

6. Search engine indexing - Wikipedia

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   Search engine indexing is the collecting, parsing, and storing of data to facilitate fast and accurate information retrieval. Index design incorporates interdisciplinary concepts from linguistics, cognitive psychology, mathematics, informatics, and computer science. An alternate name for the process, in the context of search engines designed to ...

7. AltaVista - Wikipedia

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   Defunct (July 8, 2013. ( 2013-07-08) ) [1] AltaVista was a Web search engine established in 1995. It became one of the most-used early search engines, but lost ground to Google and was purchased by Yahoo! in 2003, which retained the brand, but based all AltaVista searches on its own search engine.