A Web search engine is a tool designed to search for information on the World Wide Web. Information may consist of web pages, images, information and other types of files. Some search engines also mine data available in news books, databases, or open directories. Here are the list of some of the famous search engines presents and entertain on web. List includes the year of launch of name of search engine.
| Year | Engine | Event |
| 1993 | Aliweb | Launch |
| 1994 | WebCrawler | Launch |
| Infoseek | Launch | |
| Lycos | Launch | |
| 1995 | AltaVista | Launch |
| Open Text Web Index | Launch | |
| Magellan | Launch | |
| Excite | Launch | |
| SAPO | Launch | |
| 1996 | Dogpile | Launch |
| Inktomi | Founded | |
| HotBot | Founded | |
| Ask Jeeves | Founded | |
| 1997 | Northern Light | Launch |
| Yandex | Launch | |
| 1998 | Google | Launch |
| 1999 | AlltheWeb | Launch |
| GenieKnows | Founded | |
| Naver | Launch | |
| Teoma | Founded | |
| Vivisimo | Founded | |
| 2000 | Baidu | Founded |
| 2003 | Info.com | Launch |
| 2004 | Yahoo! Search | Final launch |
| A9.com | Launch | |
| 2005 | MSN Search | Final launch |
| Ask.com | Launch | |
| GoodSearch | Launch | |
| 2006 | wikiseek | Founded |
| Quaero | Founded | |
| Ask.com | Launch | |
| Live Search | Launch | |
| ChaCha | Beta Launch | |
| Guruji.com | Beta Launch | |
| 2007 | wikiseek | Launched |
| Wikia Search | Launched | |
| 2008 | Powerset | Launched |
| Viewzi | Launched | |
| Cuil | Launched | |
| Boogami | Launched | |
| LeapFish | Beta Launch |
If you are aware with other search engine and want to listed here, please have a comment with the name of search and url.
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