WebCrawler was the first full text search engine. It went live on April 20, 1994 and was created by Brian Pinkerton at the University of Washington.
WebCrawler was originally a separate search engine with its own database. Recently it has been repositioned as a metasearch engine, providing a composite of search returns from Yahoo!, Teoma, Google, and advertiser-placed search results, following in the footsteps of other meta-search engines such as Hotbot and Dogpile.
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