Here Is A important list of search engines, who are famous for a time, some are still live and some are dead but below is a list to present
Source:- Web search engine
| imeline (full list) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Year | Engine | Current status |
| 1993 | W3Catalog | Inactive |
| Aliweb | Inactive | |
| JumpStation | Inactive | |
| WWW Worm | Inactive | |
| 1994 | WebCrawler | Active, Aggregator |
| Go.com | Active, Yahoo Search | |
| Lycos | Active | |
| Infoseek | Inactive | |
| 1995 | AltaVista | Inactive, redirected to Yahoo! |
| Daum | Active | |
| Magellan | Inactive | |
| Excite | Active | |
| SAPO | Active | |
| Yahoo! | Active, Launched as a directory | |
| 1996 | Dogpile | Active, Aggregator |
| Inktomi | Inactive, acquired by Yahoo! | |
| HotBot | Active (lycos.com) | |
| Ask Jeeves | Active (rebranded ask.com) | |
| 1997 | Northern Light | Inactive |
| Yandex | Active | |
| 1998 | Active | |
| Ixquick | Active also as Startpage | |
| MSN Search | Active as Bing | |
| empas | Inactive (merged with NATE) | |
| 1999 | AlltheWeb | Inactive (URL redirected to Yahoo!) |
| GenieKnows | Active, rebranded Yellowee.com | |
| Naver | Active | |
| Teoma | Inactive, redirects to Ask.com | |
| Vivisimo | Inactive | |
| 2000 | Baidu | Active |
| Exalead | Active | |
| Gigablast | Active | |
| 2003 | Info.com | Active |
| Scroogle | Inactive | |
| 2004 | Yahoo! Search | Active, Launched own web search (see Yahoo! Directory, 1995) |
| A9.com | Inactive | |
| Sogou | Active | |
| 2005 | AOL Search | Active |
| GoodSearch | Active | |
| SearchMe | Inactive | |
| 2006 | Soso (search engine) | Active |
| Quaero | Active | |
| Ask.com | Active | |
| Live Search | Active as Bing, Launched as rebranded MSN Search | |
| ChaCha | Active | |
| Guruji.com | Inactive | |
| 2007 | wikiseek | Inactive |
| Sproose | Inactive | |
| Wikia Search | Inactive | |
| Blackle.com | Active, Google Search | |
| 2008 | Powerset | Inactive (redirects to Bing) |
| Picollator | Inactive | |
| Viewzi | Inactive | |
| Boogami | Inactive | |
| LeapFish | Inactive | |
| Forestle | Inactive (redirects to Ecosia) | |
| DuckDuckGo | Active | |
| 2009 | Bing | Active, Launched as rebranded Live Search |
| Yebol | Inactive | |
| Mugurdy | Inactive due to a lack of funding | |
| Scout (Goby) | Active | |
| NATE | Active | |
| 2010 | Blekko | Active |
| Cuil | Inactive | |
| Yandex | Active, Launched global (English) search | |
| 2011 | YaCy | Active, P2P web search engine |
| 2012 | Volunia | Inactive |
| 2013 | Halalgoogling | Active, Islamic / Halal filter Search |
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