Search Engine History

[gary price]

Hello from DC.

Over the weekend I used the completed Google Groups archive to find either very early announcements
or the official launch news releases of some of the most well known early and current web search tools. 

Interesting and fun!

An Early Mention of JumpStation by Jonathon Fletcher (2/27/94)
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&selm=B80LBRRI%40math.fu-berlin.de

First Mention of McBryan's World Wide Web Worm in the Usenet Archive is this
Technical Query (3/14/94)
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=2m31s9%24pq0%40falstaff.css.beckman.com&output=gplain

Brian Pinkerton Announces the Availability of Webcrawler (6/11/94)
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=2r0rnm%24ftj%40news.u.washington.edu&output=gplain

Steve Kirsch Announces Free Demos Of the Infoseek Search Engine (7/18/94)
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=30cvtt%244u8%40corp.infoseek.com&output=gplain

Jerry Yang Alerts a Usenet group to the Yahoo Database (9/21/94)
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=JERRY.94Sep20185952%40akebono.stanford.edu&output=gplain

Carnegie Mellon University Center for Machine Translation Announces Lycos
(8/14/94)
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=32u1ec%2414qr%40msuinfo.cl.msu.edu&output=gplain

UC Berkeley Announces Inktomi (9/26/95)
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=44elvm%243td%40agate.berkeley.edu&output=gplain

Introduction of Excite (9/27/95)
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=44ahk8%2428t%40holly.aa.net&output=gplain

AltaVista Public Beta Press Release (12/15/95)
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=9512151806.AA02246%40raptor.pa.dec.com&output=gplain


Btw, if the urls do not format correctly they are posted on my weblog (Dec. 15, 2001)

cheers,
gary


    
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