The Vintage Family of Search engines

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Hey, let’s get back to the era of search engines before Goggle . Or to that era wen Google was not even born. So, here we go. What!!! you haven’t heard about these search engines ever?? No issues, let us introduce you to the Champs of their time.

Here is Ask Jeeves, established in 1996 by Garrett Gruener and David Warthe. In its intial days, it was the search engines mainly focused on question & answers. Today people known it as Ask.com but still in UK, people do call it Ask Jeeves only.

The 2nd member of this vintage family is DogPile. Its basically a metasearch engine founded by Aaron Flin in 1996. You just enter a query and it will fetch results from every where be it Google, Yahoo!, or Bing. Today it has become a resgistered tardemark of Infospace.

And here is Mamma.com, the mother of all search engines (as per the tag line), the first ever web’s first tier 2 metasearch engine. Mamma was launched in 1996 by Herman Tumurcuoglu in Montreal, Canada. Intially owned by Copernic and than sold to Empresario in 2009.

The 4th member of this family is Infoseek, a well-known search engine, established in 1994 by Steve Kirsch. It was purchased by The Walt Disney Company in 1998 and was rolled in to Go.com. Later it get replaced with Yahoo! Search.

Meet our last but not the least member Lycos, a search engine and web portal designed in 1994. In 2010, it get merged with Terra Networks and become Terra Lycos.

Like today’s giant search engine Google, these were also the Big Daddy of their field.

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