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Search Engines: A History. First search engine was Veronica for the Gopher network 1991 After Gopher disappeared, the first one for modern web was Aliweb (which searched titles only) 1993 First full text search was Web Crawler 1994 Internet went commercial 1994
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Search Engines: A History First search engine was Veronica for the Gopher network 1991 After Gopher disappeared, the first one for modern web was Aliweb (which searched titles only) 1993 First full text search was Web Crawler 1994 Internet went commercial 1994 Google was started 1998 Google got majority share 2000
NOW • Search engines are now more prominent than address bars • Google: indexes over 25 billion sites • In US, Google is dominant search engine