internet trivia

[tony286]

Im studying SEO ,got the SEO bible. Learning some interesting stuff.
So lets see who knows this: What was the first search engine in the form we know search engines today? and no cheating with Google lol

[BusterBunny]

bill gates bitch slapped steve jobs in the back of the head and said fetch?

[Iron Fist]

Alta Vista? or are we going way back? Hotbot? no no.. uh.. I think it was Yahoo... but it was under another name... the nameof the computer is ran on actually.. I can't remember!

[fallenmuffin]

Yahoo!

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[Iron Fist]

I mean if you want to go completely old school, then ARCHIE was the original search engine... then VERONICA... etc etc.... blah.

[tony286]

it was called wandex,it was the first to index and search.

[Iron Fist]

Interesting... wandex you say?

[tony286]

yes in 1993 by a guy named matthew gray

[fallenmuffin]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine

[Vick!]

Archie and Wandex

[viencarl]

nice info here thanks for sharing)