• 1990 - WORLD WIDE WEB born.
  • The first web page is hosted at CERN research facility in Switzerland.
  • Reading the entire content of WWW took less than an hour.
• 1993
  • NCSA Mosaic graphical web browser was released.
  • World Wide Web Wanderer - the first automated web crawler was created.
  • ALIWeb, the first web directory is created.
  • Architext used word relationships to search collections of documents.
• 1994
  • Netscape was released.
  • Galaxy, the first hierarchical directory was created.
  • Yahoo was launched.
  • WebCrawler, the first true search engine was created.
  • Lycos was launched.
• 1995
  • MetaCrawler, the first Meta search engine, was launched.
  • Magellan was launched.
  • InfoSeek was launched.
  • Excite (based on Architext project) was launched.
  • Alta Vista was launched.
• 1996
  • Iktomi was launched.
• 1997
  • GoTo (now Overture), the first Pay-Per-Click (PPC) listing was released.
  • The Mining Company (now About), used human experts to create vertical directory.
• 1998
  • DirectHit (now Ask Jeeves/Ask) introduced the concept of user feedback, ranking the sites whose listing clicked more, higher
  • LookSmart and Yahoo introduced Pay-to-Play which is charging a fee to review and inclusion of sites.
  • AltaVista introduced link popularity, which is examining the link relationship between pages.
  • Backrub (now Google) was launched.
• 2000
  • Google introduced AdWords, which is delivery of pay-per-click listings to search portals.
• 2003
  • Yahoo acquired Inktomi.
  • Overture acquired AltaVista and AllTheWeb
  • Yahoo acquired Overture.
• 2004
  • Google introduced AdSense, which is delivery of pay-per-click listings to Websites.
  • Microsoft introduced its own search engine; MSN.

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