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Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 17:30:35 -0500
Reply-To: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
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From: Eric Bridger <eric@maine.com>
Subject: CM> Re: First search engine?
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Community Memory: Discussion List on the History of Cyberspace ______________________________________________________________________
Hasse Nilsson asked:
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>Opentext, Lycos and Webcrawler were early players, but who wrote and ran the *first* search engine to search the web?
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This is an interesting question, Hasse. I tried to post this last week but seems the message got lost...
I briefly checked the EIT www-talk archives, which, as has been noted in the past, is an invaluable resource for the early history of the WWW, http://www.eit.com/www.lists/. It provided some hints, but not too much detail.
Aliweb, by Martijn Koster, (Fall 1993) was one of the first attempts at a Archie type meta-index but was based on the various Web servers registering and providing indexes for their site to a central repository. See http://www.eit.com/www.lists/www-talk.1993q4/0503.html
Martijn Koster still maintains a Web Robots master index at: http://info.webcrawler.com/mak/projects/robots/robots.html
I also found an RFC:
"RFC: Multi-Owner Maintenance robot (MOMspider) Roy T. Fielding (fielding@simplon.ics.uci.edu) Mon, 06 Dec 1993"
http://www.eit.com/www.lists/www-talk.1993q4/0714.html
But I think the earliest spider was written by Matthew Gray starting in June 1993:
"Report by Matthew Gray
Measuring the Growth of the Web
June 1993 to June 1995"
http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/mkgray/growth/
This still doesn't answer the big question of who of the remaining big players actually got started first.
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Eric Bridger
eric@maine.com eric@necx.com
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From: Eric Bridger <eric@maine.com>
Subject: CM> Re: First search engine?
______________________________________________________________________
Community Memory: Discussion List on the History of Cyberspace ______________________________________________________________________
Hasse Nilsson asked:
>
>Opentext, Lycos and Webcrawler were early players, but who wrote and ran the *first* search engine to search the web?
>
This is an interesting question, Hasse. I tried to post this last week but seems the message got lost...
I briefly checked the EIT www-talk archives, which, as has been noted in the past, is an invaluable resource for the early history of the WWW, http://www.eit.com/www.lists/. It provided some hints, but not too much detail.
Aliweb, by Martijn Koster, (Fall 1993) was one of the first attempts at a Archie type meta-index but was based on the various Web servers registering and providing indexes for their site to a central repository. See http://www.eit.com/www.lists/www-talk.1993q4/0503.html
Martijn Koster still maintains a Web Robots master index at: http://info.webcrawler.com/mak/projects/robots/robots.html
I also found an RFC:
"RFC: Multi-Owner Maintenance robot (MOMspider) Roy T. Fielding (fielding@simplon.ics.uci.edu) Mon, 06 Dec 1993"
http://www.eit.com/www.lists/www-talk.1993q4/0714.html
But I think the earliest spider was written by Matthew Gray starting in June 1993:
"Report by Matthew Gray
Measuring the Growth of the Web
June 1993 to June 1995"
http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/mkgray/growth/
This still doesn't answer the big question of who of the remaining big players actually got started first.
=-=-
Eric Bridger
eric@maine.com eric@necx.com
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