[TriLUG] search engine

[Robert Dale]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_search_engine#History


On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Paul Boyle <pboyle at uwo.ca> wrote:
> On Mon, 01 Apr 2013 18:53:28 +0000 (GMT)
> Tadd Torborg <tadd at mac.com> wrote:
>
>> If I recall, it was www.altavista.digital.com when it started.
>
> Yep, your recollection is correct.  Altavista was the first search
> engine I ever used.  I guess that was probably around 1992 or 1993.
>
> Paul
>
>>
>> http://web.archive.org/web/19960511013133/http://www.altavista.digital.com///
>>
>> I love this from the above page:
>> AltaVista gives you access to the largest Web index: 30 million pages
>> found on 225,000 servers, and 3 million articles from 17,000 Usenet
>> news groups. No wonder it is accessed over 10 million times daily! 
>>
>>
>> On Apr 01, 2013, at 01:29 PM, Bill Farrow <bill at arrowsreach.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 1:23 PM, Todd Edwards <todd at mtn.cc> wrote:
>> > >> http://www.altavista.com/
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Wow this brings back memories.
>> >
>> > No, *this* brings back memories :-)
>> > http://web.archive.org/web/19990208011304/http://www.altavista.com/
>> >
>> >
>> > Bill
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