A brief history of the search engine.

A search engine can be defined as a software system that searches for information on the World Wide Web. Taking this definition into account I believe Wandex and Excite were the first search engines that worked in a form as we know today. 

It all started in 1993, firstly with Wandex which was the first to both index and search the index of pages on websites, and then later in that same year with Excite which used a similar technology called ‘crawling’ to index a website. 

Bing was the latest major search engine to enter the market in 1993 and Google, the biggest of search engine of them all didn’t enter the market until 1997.

Here are the years when the major search engines entered the market.

• Wandex - 1993

• Excite - 1993

• Yahoo - 1994

• Lycos - 1994

• Infoseek -1995

• Alta Vista -1995

• Inktomi - 1996

• Ask - 1997

• Google - 1997

• MSN Search - 1998

• Bing – 2009

The blog post was written by John Giazzi a marketing consultant based in Sutton Coldfield.