Search Engine History

Timeline full list
Year	Engine	Current status
1993	W3Catalog	Inactive
	Aliweb	Inactive
1994	WebCrawler	Active, Aggregator
	Go.com	Active, Yahoo Search
	Lycos	Active
1995	AltaVista	Inactive (URL redirected to Yahoo!)
	Daum	Active
	Magellan	Inactive
	Excite	Active
	SAPO	Active
	Yahoo!	Active, Launched as a directory
1996	Dogpile	Active, Aggregator
	Inktomi	Acquired by Yahoo!
	HotBot	Active (lycos.com)
	Ask Jeeves	Active (rebranded ask.com)
1997	Northern Light	Inactive
	Yandex	Active
1998	Google	Active
	MSN Search	Active as Bing
1999	AlltheWeb	Inactive (URL redirected to Yahoo!)
	GenieKnows	Active, rebranded Yellowee.com
	Naver	Active
	Teoma	Active
	Vivisimo	Inactive
2000	Baidu	Active
	Exalead	Acquired by Dassault Systèmes
2002	Inktomi	Acquired by Yahoo!
2003	Info.com	Active
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	Closed
2006	wikiseek	Inactive
	Quaero	Active
	Ask.com	Active
	Live Search	Active as Bing, Launched as rebranded MSN Search
	ChaCha	Active
	Guruji.com	Active
2007	wikiseek	Inactive
	Sproose	Inactive
	Wikia Search	Inactive
	Blackle.com	Active
2008	Powerset	Inactive (redirects to Bing)
	Picollator	Inactive
	Viewzi	Inactive
	Boogami	Inactive
	LeapFish	Inactive
	Forestle	Inactive (redirects to Ecosia)
	VADLO	Active
	DuckDuckGo	Active, Aggregator
2009	Bing	Active, Launched as rebranded Live Search
	Yebol	Active
	Mugurdy	Inactive due to a lack of funding
	Goby	Active
2010	Blekko	Active
	Cuil	Inactive
	Yandex	Active, Launched global (English) search
	Yummly	Active
2011	Interred	Active
	Yandex	Active, Launched Turkey search
2012	Volunia	Active