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Search Engine?

Ika

Ika

Lifer
So who came up with the idea of a search engine? Who was the first to think "hmm, why don't we index every web page accessible to the public and make it searcheable?"
 
Yahoo! maybe?

one of the first ...

wikipedia says:

History

The very first tool used for searching on the Internet was Archie. (The name stands for "archive" without the "v", not the character from the 'Archie' comic book series). It was created in 1990 by Alan Emtage, a student at McGill University in Montreal. The program downloaded the directory listings of all the files located on public anonymous FTP (File Transfer Protocol) sites, creating a searchable database of filenames.
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