WebCrawler
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Screenshot of the WebCrawler homepage (March 2005)
WebCrawler was the first full text search engine. It went live on April 20, 1994 and was created by Brian Pinkerton at the University of Washington.
WebCrawler was originally a separate search engine with its own database. Recently it has been repositioned as a metasearch engine, providing a composite of search returns from Yahoo!, Teoma, Google, and advertiser-placed search results, following in the footsteps of other meta-search engines such as Hotbot and Dogpile.
External links
- WebCrawler (http://www.webcrawler.com/info.wbcrwl/)
- WebCrawler history (http://www.thinkpink.com/bp/WebCrawler/History.html)