WebCrawler
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WebCrawler is a search engine, and one of the oldest surviving search engines on the web today. For many years, it operated as a metasearch engine. WebCrawler was the first web search engine to provide full-text search.
Key facts
- Website.name
- WebCrawler
- Website.logo
- Webcrawler logo 2018.png
- Website.logo_caption
- Logo since 2018
- Website.caption
- Logo since 2018
- Website.commercial
- No
- Website.type
- Search engine
- Website.language
- English
- Website.registration
- none
- Website.owner
- System1
- Website.author
- Brian Pinkerton
- Website.current_status
- Active
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.biotech.washington.edu/WebCrawler/WebQuery.html
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- inception
- 1994-04-20
- search formatter URL
- www.webcrawler.com/serp?q=$1
- Alexa rank
- 1787
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- History
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WebCrawler is a search engine, and one of the oldest surviving search engines on the web today. For many years, it operated as a metasearch engine. WebCrawler was the first web search engine to provide full-text search.
==History== thumb|200px|Screenshot of WebCrawler homepage in September 1995 Brian Pinkerton first started working on WebCrawler, which was originally a desktop application, on January 27, 1994 at the University of Washington. On March 15, 1994, he generated a list of the top 25 websites.