Timeline (full list)

Year

Engine

Event

1993

Aliweb

Launch

JumpStation

Launch

1994

WebCrawler

Launch

Infoseek

Launch

Lycos

Launch

1995

AltaVista

Launch

Open Text Web Index

Launch[1]

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

Exalead

Founded

2003

Info.com

Launch

2004

Yahoo! Search

Final launch

A9.com

Launch

Sogou

Launch

2005

MSN Search

Final launch

Ask.com

Launch

GoodSearch

Launch

SearchMe

Founded

2006

wikiseek

Founded

Quaero

Founded

Ask.com

Launch

Live Search

Launch

ChaCha

Beta Launch

Guruji.com

Beta Launch

2007

wikiseek

Launched

Sproose

Launched

Wikia Search

Launched

Blackle.com

Launched

2008

Powerset

Launched

Picollator

Launched

Viewzi

Launched

Cuil

Launched

Boogami

Launched

LeapFish

Beta Launch

Forestle

Launched

VADLO

Launched

Sperse! Search

Launched

Duck Duck Go

Launched

2009

Bing

Launched

Yebol

Beta Launch

Mugurdy

Launched