Timeline of web search engines (English Wikipedia)

Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Timeline of web search engines" in English language version.

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10web.archive.org

1^st place

10searchengineland.com

7,076^th place

4,822^nd place

9googleblog.blogspot.com

3,598^th place

3,448^th place

8techcrunch.com

187^th place

146^th place

3mashable.com

561^st place

392^nd place

2books.google.com

3^rd place

2forbes.com

54^th place

48^th place

2patents.google.com

1,182^nd place

725^th place

2google.com

163^rd place

185^th place

2moz.com

low place

2searchenginewatch.com

low place

9,691^st place

1whoishostingthis.com

low place

1icann.org

2,810^th place

1,907^th place

1poynter.org

8,349^th place

4,860^th place

1pcmag.com

1,060^th place

700^th place

1jstor.org

26^th place

20^th place

1loopnewsbarbados.com

low place

1huffingtonpost.co.uk

1,146^th place

683^rd place

1uiuc.edu

3,087^th place

2,519^th place

1xserver.ru

low place

1searchenginehistory.com

low place

1wordstream.com

low place

1mit.edu

415^th place

327^th place

1unibe.ch

2,608^th place

3,516^th place

1archive.today

14^th place

1stanford.edu

179^th place

183^rd place

1metro.co.uk

296^th place

217^th place

1techtarget.com

2,435^th place

1,699^th place

1yahoo.com

38^th place

40^th place

1moneyhouse.ch

low place

1doi.org

2^nd place

1rankdex.com

low place

1fourweekmba.com

low place

1yandex.com

6,683^rd place

5,180^th place

1slashdot.org

5,701^st place

4,384^th place

1about.com

216^th place

186^th place

1timesonline.co.uk

241^st place

193^rd place

1informationweek.com

4,522^nd place

2,903^rd place

1wikia.com

1,254^th place

low place

1washingtonpost.com

34^th place

27^th place

1nbcnews.com

137^th place

101^st place

1venturebeat.com

616^th place

430^th place

1cnet.com

272^nd place

225^th place

1ostatic.com

low place

1duckduckgo.com

low place

1bbc.co.uk

8^th place

10^th place

1reuters.com

49^th place

47^th place

1googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com

low place

1huffingtonpost.com

109^th place

87^th place

1techweekeurope.co.uk

low place

1wsj.com

79^th place

65^th place

1wired.com

193^rd place

152^nd place

1marketingland.com

low place

1insidesearch.blogspot.com

low place

1cnn.com

28^th place

26^th place

1prothomalo.com

1,845^th place

2,414^th place

1seroundtable.com

low place

1github.com

383^rd place

320^th place

1t3n.de

low place

1searchinfluence.com

low place

1theverge.com

114^th place

90^th place

1openai.com

1,559^th place

1,155^th place

about.com

websearch.about.com

Boswell, Wendy. "Snap - A New Kind of Search Engine". About.com. Archived from the original on December 16, 2005. Retrieved February 11, 2014.

archive.today

Thomas R. Gruber, Sunil Vemuri and James Rice (December 1995). "Virtual documents that explain How Things Work: Dynamically generated question-answering documents". Knowledge Systems Laboratory, Stanford University. Archived from the original on 2012-12-15. Retrieved 2014-02-11.

bbc.co.uk

news.bbc.co.uk

"Microsoft and Yahoo seal web deal". BBC News. 29 July 2009. Retrieved 2009-07-29.

books.google.com

Evans, Claire L. (2018). Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet. New York}: Portfolio/Penguin. p. 116. ISBN 978-0-7352-1175-9.
Oppitz, Marcus; Tomsu, Peter (2017). Inventing the Cloud Century: How Cloudiness Keeps Changing Our Life, Economy and Technology. Springer. p. 238. ISBN 978-3-319-61161-7.

cnet.com

news.cnet.com

Wales giving up on Wikia Search

cnn.com

money.cnn.com

Goldman, David (10 May 2012). "Bing fires at Google with new social search". CNN Money. Retrieved 10 May 2012.

doi.org

Yanhong Li, "Toward a Qualitative Search Engine," IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 24–29, July/Aug. 1998, doi:10.1109/4236.707687

duckduckgo.com

"DuckDuckGo Privacy". DuckDuckGo. Retrieved 2019-03-20.

forbes.com

Greenberg, Andy, "The Man Who's Beating Google", Forbes magazine, October 5, 2009
Altucher, James (March 18, 2011). "10 Unusual Things About Google". Forbes. Retrieved 16 June 2019.

fourweekmba.com

"Baidu Vs Google: The Twins Of Search Compared". FourWeekMBA. 18 September 2018. Retrieved 16 June 2019.

github.com

Tauber, Adam. "searx: A privacy-respecting, hackable metasearch engine". GitHub.

google.com

"Our history in depth". September 15, 1997. Retrieved February 1, 2014.
"About Google Instant". Retrieved February 2, 2014.

googleblog.blogspot.com

"At a loss for words?". Official Google Blog. August 25, 2008. Retrieved February 2, 2014.
"Our new search index: Caffeine". Official Google Blog. June 8, 2010. Retrieved February 2, 2014.
Fox, Vanessa (June 8, 2010). "Google's New Indexing Infrastructure "Caffeine" Now Live". Search Engine Land. Retrieved February 2, 2014.
"Search: now faster than the speed of type". Official Google Blog. September 8, 2010. Retrieved February 2, 2014.
"Google Instant, behind the scenes". Official Google Blog. September 9, 2010. Retrieved February 2, 2014.
Singhal, Amit; Cutts, Matt (February 24, 2011). "Finding more high-quality sites in search". Official Google Blog. Retrieved February 2, 2014.
Guha, Ramanathan (June 2, 2011). "Introducing schema.org: Search engines come together for a richer web". Official Google Blog. Retrieved February 2, 2014.
Singhal, Amit (January 10, 2012). "Search, plus Your World". Official Google Blog. Retrieved February 2, 2014.
Singhal, Amit (May 16, 2012). "Introducing the Knowledge Graph: things, not strings". The Official Google Blog. Retrieved February 2, 2014.

googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com

"Help test some next-generation infrastructure". Google Webmaster Central Blog. August 10, 2009. Retrieved February 2, 2014.

huffingtonpost.co.uk

Dino Grandoni, Alan Emtage (April 2013). "Alan Emtage: The Man Who Invented The World's First Search Engine (But Didn't Patent It)". huffingtonpost.co.uk. Retrieved 2020-09-21.

huffingtonpost.com

Cholia, Ami (2009-09-01). "Halal Search Engine Launches". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2009-09-18.

icann.org

whois.icann.org

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. "History of WHOIS". Retrieved 2019-04-19.

informationweek.com

Wales: Search Wikia Will Succeed Where Google Cannot, InformationWeek, February 5, 2007. Retrieved July 27, 2007.

insidesearch.blogspot.com

Cutts, Matt (April 24, 2012). "Another step to reward high-quality sites". Inside Search: The official Google Search blog. Retrieved February 2, 2014.

jstor.org

daily.jstor.org

Alexandra Samuel (21 February 2017). "Meet Alan Emtage, the Black Technologist Who Invented ARCHIE, the First Internet Search Engine". ITHAKA. Retrieved 2020-09-20.

loopnewsbarbados.com

loop news barbados. "Alan Emtage- a Barbadian you should know". loopnewsbarbados.com. Archived from the original on 2020-09-23. Retrieved 2020-09-21.

marketingland.com

Sullivan, Danny (January 11, 2012). "Twitter Cries Foul Over Google "@WWE" Search, But Google Still Beats Bing". Marketing Land. Retrieved February 2, 2014.

mashable.com

Parr, Ben (August 10, 2009). "Google Caffeine: A Detailed Test of the New Google". Mashable. Retrieved February 2, 2014.
Ulanoff, Lance (January 10, 2012). "Google Merges Search and Google+ Into Social Media Juggernaut". Mashable. Retrieved February 2, 2014.
Kessler, Sarah (January 13, 2012). "Why Google's Social Search Is Too Much, Too Soon". Mashable. Retrieved February 2, 2014.

metro.co.uk

"Why we nearly McGoogled it". Metro. March 15, 2009. Retrieved February 3, 2014.

mit.edu

Gray, Matthew. "Internet Growth and Statistics: Credit and Background". Retrieved February 3, 2014.

moneyhouse.ch

"search.ch AG in Zürich". Moneyhouse. Retrieved 2022-10-23.

moz.com

"Google Algorithm Change History". SEOmoz. Retrieved February 1, 2014.
Fishkin, Rand (September 21, 2010). "Google Instant: Fewer Changes to SEO than the Average Algo Update". SEOmoz. Retrieved February 2, 2014.

nbcnews.com

Liedtke, Michael, Ex-Google engineers debut 'Cuil' way to search^{[dead link‍]}, Associated Press, 28 July 2008, retrieved 13 Dec 2009

openai.com

"SearchGPT Prototype". OpenAI. 2024-07-26. Retrieved 2024-07-26.

ostatic.com

"DuckDuckGo: A New Search Engine Built from Open Source". 2011-03-17. Archived from the original on 2011-03-17. Retrieved 2019-03-20.

patents.google.com

USPTO, "Hypertext Document Retrieval System and Method", US Patent number: 5920859, Inventor: Yanhong Li, Filing date: Feb 5, 1997, Issue date: Jul 6, 1999
"Method for node ranking in a linked database". Google Patents. Archived from the original on 15 October 2015. Retrieved 19 October 2015.

pcmag.com

pcmag. "Archie". pcmag.com. Retrieved 2020-09-20.

poynter.org

David Shedden (10 September 2014). "Today in media history: The first Internet search engine is released in 1990". Poynter.

prothomalo.com

প্রতিবেদক, নিজস্ব (13 April 2013). "পিপীলিকার পথচলা শুরু". Prothomalo (in Bengali). Retrieved 2021-03-20.

rankdex.com

"About: RankDex", rankdex.com

reuters.com

Tiffany Wu; Derek Caney (Jul 29, 2009). "REFILE-UPDATE 1-Microsoft, Yahoo in 10-year Web search deal". Thomson Reuters. Retrieved 2009-07-29.

searchenginehistory.com

"Search Engine History". Retrieved February 3, 2014.

searchengineland.com

Sullivan, Danny (August 25, 2008). "Google.com Finally Gets Google Suggest Feature". Search Engine Land. Retrieved February 2, 2014.
"How Google Panda & Places Updates Created A Rollercoaster Ride For IYP Traffic". Search Engine Land. November 21, 2011. Retrieved February 2, 2014.
Fox, Vanessa (June 2, 2011). "Schema.org: Google, Bing & Yahoo Unite To Make Search Listings Richer Through Structured Data". Retrieved February 2, 2014.
Sullivan, Danny (January 11, 2012). "Real-Life Examples Of How Google's "Search Plus" Pushes Google+ Over Relevancy". Search Engine Land. Retrieved February 2, 2014.
Sullivan, Danny (April 26, 2012). "The Penguin Update: Google's Webspam Algorithm Gets Official Name". Search Engine Land. Retrieved February 2, 2014.
Sullivan, Danny (April 26, 2012). "Google Penguin Update Recovery Tips & Advice". Search Engine Land. Retrieved February 2, 2014.
Sullivan, Danny (May 10, 2012). "Two Weeks In, Google Talks Penguin Update, Ways To Recover & Negative SEO". Search Engine Land. Retrieved February 2, 2014.
Sullivan, Danny (May 16, 2012). "Google Launches Knowledge Graph To Provide Answers, Not Just Links". Search Engine Land. Retrieved February 2, 2014.
Sullivan, Danny (September 26, 2013). "FAQ: All About The New Google "Hummingbird" Algorithm". Search Engine Land. Retrieved February 2, 2014.
Schwartz, Barry (2014-07-25). "Pigeon: Search Engine Land's Name For The New Google Local Search Update". Search Engine Land. Retrieved 2024-06-12.

searchenginewatch.com

Sullivan, Danny (August 19, 1998). "Direct Hit Debuts On HotBot". Search Engine Update.

blog.searchenginewatch.com

"Cuil is Stone Cold – Another 'Google Killer' Bites the Dust". SearchEngineWatch. 2010-09-18.

searchinfluence.com

""Pigeon" Algorithm Update Released Thursday 7/24/14". Search Influence. 2014-07-25. Retrieved 2024-06-12.

seroundtable.com

Schwartz, Barry (August 23, 2013). "Some Reports Of An August 21/22 Google Update". Search Engine Roundtable. Retrieved February 2, 2014.

slashdot.org

"The GnuHoo BooBoo". Slashdot. 23 June 1998. Retrieved April 27, 2007.

stanford.edu

www-ksl.stanford.edu

Thomas R. Gruber, Sunil Vemuri and James Rice (December 1995). "Virtual documents that explain How Things Work: Dynamically generated question-answering documents". Knowledge Systems Laboratory, Stanford University. Archived from the original on 2012-12-15. Retrieved 2014-02-11.

t3n.de

"Searx: Die konfigurierbare Suchmaschine, die deine Privatsphäre respektiert". t3n Magazin (in German). 2016-07-26. Retrieved 2024-06-12.

techcrunch.com

Michael Arrington (2010-09-17). "Cuil Goes Down, And We Hear It's Down For Good". TechCrunch.
Siegler, MG (August 10, 2009). "Caffeine: It's Google On Red Bull, Or Something". TechCrunch. Retrieved February 2, 2014.
Schoenfeld, Erick (December 28, 2009). "Google Is About To Get Caffeinated With A Faster Search Index". TechCrunch. Retrieved February 2, 2014.
Siegler, MG (June 8, 2010). "Caffeine: Google Finally Brews Its New Pot Of Web Results — 50% Fresher". TechCrunch. Retrieved February 2, 2014.
Tsotsis, Alexia (September 8, 2010). "Google Instant: It Searches Before You Type". TechCrunch. Retrieved February 2, 2014.
Empson, Rip (June 2, 2011). "Google, Yahoo, And Bing Collaborate On Structured Data To Make Search Listings Richer". TechCrunch. Retrieved February 2, 2014.
Lardinois, Frederic (January 10, 2012). ""Search Plus Your World" Is Just About Google+, Not Your World". TechCrunch. Retrieved February 2, 2014.
Lardinois, Frederic (May 16, 2012). "Google Just Got A Whole Lot Smarter, Launches Its Knowledge Graph". TechCrunch. Retrieved February 2, 2014.

techtarget.com

searchcio.techtarget.com

"What is first mover?". SearchCIO. TechTarget. September 2005. Retrieved 5 September 2019.

techweekeurope.co.uk

Donoghue, Andrew (4 December 2009). "Microsoft-Backed Green Search Engine Attacks Google". Archived from the original on 23 July 2015. Retrieved 23 July 2015.

theverge.com

Campbell, Ian Carlos (2021-06-23). "Brave Search is a new alternative to Google built on its own index". The Verge. Retrieved 2024-06-12.

timesonline.co.uk

business.timesonline.co.uk

Doran, James (December 23, 2006). "Founder of Wikipedia plans search engine to rival Google". The Times. London. Archived from the original on December 27, 2006. Retrieved January 6, 2007.

uiuc.edu

isrl.uiuc.edu

"The First Search Engine, Archie". Archived from the original on 21 June 2007. Retrieved 2007-05-26.

unibe.ch

scg.unibe.ch

"W3 Catalog History".

venturebeat.com

Devindra, Hardawar (2010-09-17). "Supposed Google-killer Cuil's reign of terror may finally be over". VentureBeat.

washingtonpost.com

"Wikia Search Project to Launch January 7, Wales says". The Washington Post. December 24, 2007. Retrieved December 24, 2007.

web.archive.org

loop news barbados. "Alan Emtage- a Barbadian you should know". loopnewsbarbados.com. Archived from the original on 2020-09-23. Retrieved 2020-09-21.
"The First Search Engine, Archie". Archived from the original on 21 June 2007. Retrieved 2007-05-26.
"Yahoo! Search". Yahoo!. 28 November 1996. Archived from the original on 28 November 1996. Retrieved 5 September 2019.
"Method for node ranking in a linked database". Google Patents. Archived from the original on 15 October 2015. Retrieved 19 October 2015.
About Yandex — History of Yandex. Retrieved May 24, 2011. Archived copy.
Boswell, Wendy. "Snap - A New Kind of Search Engine". About.com. Archived from the original on December 16, 2005. Retrieved February 11, 2014.
Doran, James (December 23, 2006). "Founder of Wikipedia plans search engine to rival Google". The Times. London. Archived from the original on December 27, 2006. Retrieved January 6, 2007.
Wales, Jimmy (December 24, 2007). "private pre-alpha invites available". Archived from the original on December 28, 2007. Retrieved December 24, 2007.
"DuckDuckGo: A New Search Engine Built from Open Source". 2011-03-17. Archived from the original on 2011-03-17. Retrieved 2019-03-20.
Donoghue, Andrew (4 December 2009). "Microsoft-Backed Green Search Engine Attacks Google". Archived from the original on 23 July 2015. Retrieved 23 July 2015.

whoishostingthis.com

Jon Penland. "Before There Was Google: A History Of Web Search Engines". Retrieved 2019-04-19.

wikia.com

lists.wikia.com

Wales, Jimmy (December 24, 2007). "private pre-alpha invites available". Archived from the original on December 28, 2007. Retrieved December 24, 2007.

wired.com

Levy, Steven (March 3, 2011). "TED 2011: The 'Panda' That Hates Farms: A Q&A With Google's Top Search Engineers". Wired Magazine. Retrieved February 2, 2014.

wordstream.com

"History of Search Engines - Chronological List of Internet Search Engines". Retrieved February 3, 2014.

wsj.com

Efrati, Amir (November 1, 2010). "Start-Up Aims at Google: Blekko.com Taps Users to Narrow Results, Avoid Spam Sites". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved February 11, 2014.

xserver.ru

"In Russian: History of the Internet. The First Search Engine". Retrieved 2012-02-23.

yahoo.com

"Yahoo! Search". Yahoo!. 28 November 1996. Archived from the original on 28 November 1996. Retrieved 5 September 2019.

yandex.com

company.yandex.com

About Yandex — History of Yandex. Retrieved May 24, 2011. Archived copy.