Timeline of Search Engines

Hi Again All My Techie Fellows, Today while looking for new thing / stuff of the day to learn, I came across the very basic but new stuff to learn.

That is nothing but all the list of search engines, who is the heart of the internet world nowadays.

Heart because today people have become more paralysed to type the full URL and instead they are more likely used to give keywords or brands or office names etc. and just give enter and browser URL and browser will search for that with its default search engine [e.g. Chrome with Google, Internet Explorer with Bing etc.]

So I searched for search engine’s birth till today and came across long list of search engines and it’s current status from which most of the search engines are not known to me so thought to share with you all my techie followers.

Here are all the list of Search Engines which were / are on web world today.

Year	Engine	Current Status
1993	W3Catalog	Inactive
	Aliweb	Inactive
	JumpStation	Inactive
1994	WebCrawler	Active, Aggregator
	Go.com	Active, Yahoo Search
	Lycos	Active
1995	AltaVista	Inactive, redirected to Yahoo!
	Daum	Active
	Magellan	Inactive
	Excite	Active
	SAPO	Active
	Yahoo! 2008	Active, Launched as a directory
1996	Dogpile	Active, Aggregator
	Inktomi	Inactive, acquired by Yahoo!
	HotBot	Active (lycos.com)
	Ask Jeeves	Active (rebranded ask.com)
1997	Northern Light	Inactive
	Yandex	Active
1998	Goto	Inactive
	Google	Active
	MSN Search	Active as Bing
	empas	Inactive (merged with NATE)
1999	AlltheWeb	Inactive (URL redirected to Yahoo!)
	GenieKnows	Active, rebranded Yellowee.com
	Naver	Active
	Teoma	Active
	Vivisimo	Inactive
2000	Baidu	Active
	Exalead	Active
	Gigablast	Active
2002	Inktomi	Acquired by Yahoo!
2003	Info.com	Active
	Scroogle	Inactive
2004	Yahoo! Search	Active, Launched own web search
		(see Yahoo! Directory, 1995)
	A9.com	Inactive
	Sogou	Active
2005	AOL Search	Active
	Ask.com	Active
	GoodSearch	Active
	SearchMe	Inactive
2006	wikiseek	Inactive
	Quaero	Active
	Ask.com	Active
	Live Search	Active as Bing, Launched as
		rebranded MSN Search
	ChaCha	Active
	Guruji.com	Active as BeeMP3.com
2007	wikiseek	Inactive
	Sproose	Inactive
	Wikia Search	Inactive
	Blackle.com	Active, Google Search
2008	Powerset	Inactive (redirects to Bing)
	Picollator	Inactive
	Viewzi	Inactive
	Boogami	Inactive
	LeapFish	Inactive
	Forestle	Inactive (redirects to Ecosia)
	DuckDuckGo	Active
2009	Bing	Active, Launched as
		rebranded Live Search
	Yebol	Inactive
	Mugurdy	Inactive due to a lack of funding
	Goby	Active
	NATE	Active
2010	Blekko	Active
	Cuil	Inactive
	Yandex	Active, Launched global
		(English) search
	Yummly	Active
2012	Volunia	Active
	Open Drive	Active, cloud file search