| Year |
Month |
Event |
| 1990 |
? |
Archie Search Engine - Created to archive FTP documents |
| December |
WWW Server Prototype |
| 1991 |
April |
WAIS
publisher fed search engine |
| Gopher Protocol |
| December |
Production WWW Server |
| 1992 |
July |
Lynx Web Browser |
| December |
Veronica Search Engine - Created to archive Gopher
documents |
| 1993 |
April |
Architext |
| March |
Jughead |
| June |
WWW Wanderer |
| August |
Mosaic Web Browser |
| November |
Aliweb |
| December |
WWW Worm |
| JumpStation |
| RBSE |
| 1994 |
? |
Open Text |
| January |
Galaxy |
| April |
WebCrawler |
| Yahoo Directory |
| July |
Lycos |
| December |
First W3C
meeting at MIT |
| 1995 |
February |
Infoseek |
| May |
SavvySearch |
| June |
MetaCrawler |
| August |
DejaNews |
| Magellan |
| September |
Inktomi |
| October |
Excite |
| December |
AltaVista |
| 1996 |
? |
Dogpile |
| Mamma |
| January |
BackRub |
| April |
Alexa |
| May |
HotBot |
| June |
Archive.org |
| October |
LookSmart |
| 1997 |
? |
GoTo |
| February |
The Mining Company |
| April |
Ask Jeeves |
| July |
FAST Search |
| August |
Northern Lights |
| 1998 |
? |
GoTo acquires WWW
Worm |
| April |
Direct Hit |
| May |
Yahoo Search (powered by Inktomi) |
| June |
Open Directory Project (ODP / DMOZ.org) |
| September |
MSN Search |
| Google |
| October |
Lycos acquires HotBot |
| 1999 |
? |
About.com |
| January |
@Home acquires Excite |
| February |
GO Network |
| June |
CMGI acquires AltaVista |
| 2000 |
May |
Terra acquires Lycos |
| June |
Yahoo Search (powered by Google) |
| Vivísimo |
| September |
Business.com |
| Espotting |
| LookSmart acquires Zeal Media |
| October |
Google AdWords |
| December |
Google Toolbar |
| 2001 |
February |
Google acquires Deja Archive |
| GoGuides |
| April |
Teoma |
| May |
JoeAnt |
| August |
LookSmart integrates Zeal |
| September |
WiseNut |
| AskJeeves acquires Teoma |
| October |
GoTo changes name to Overture |
| 2002 |
February |
Google AdWords Select |
| March |
GigaBlast Pre-Beta |
| Looksmart acquires WiseNut |
| July |
GigaBlast Beta |
| December |
Froogle Beta |
| 2003 |
March |
Yahoo acquires Inktomi |
| April |
Overture acquires Fast / AlltheWeb |
| Overture acquires AltaVista |
| Google acquires Applied Semantics |
| FindWhat acquires Espotting |
| June |
Google Adsense |
| July |
Yahoo to buy Overture |
| October |
Yahoo acquires Overture |
| Google acquire Sprinks |
| 2004 |
February |
Yahoo Drops Google as SERPs provider (powered by
an Inktomi/Yahoo hybrid) |
| September |
A9.com Search Engine from Amazon is launched.
It is mainly powered by Google |
| November |
Microsoft Search was
officially announced Nov 11th. Still in Beta. |
| 2005 |
January |
Microsoft Search
Since Jan 16th, most of the main site searches were using the MSN Search. |
| February |
Microsoft Search Feb
1st, Microsoft removed the beta designation from MSN Search and officially launched,
complete with an improved index and a redesigned MSN.com homepage.
|