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   Does WebCrawler still exist?

   • WebCrawler (1994; reborn 2001): WebCrawler still exists as a meta search engine that gets results from other search engines, rather than through its own efforts. Now owned by Infospace, WebCrawler was arguably the web’s first crawler-based search engine in the way we know them today.

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   Is WebCrawler a search engine?

   • For many years, it operated as a metasearch engine. WebCrawler was the first web search engine to provide full text search. Brian Pinkerton first started working on WebCrawler, which was originally a desktop application, on January 27, 1994 at the University of Washington.

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   How old is WebCrawler?

   • WebCrawler, probably the most bought and sold search engine on the web – and one of the first, celebrates its 10th birthday today. WebCrawler was developed by Brian Pinkerton in his spare time while a student at the University of Washington. At birth, WebCrawler was a desktop application, not a Web search engine as it is today (or was 6 years ago).

   WebCrawler Search Engine Turns 10 Years Old

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   What happened to WebCrawler?

   • WebCrawler was maintained by Excite as a separate search engine with its own database until 2001, when it started using Excite's own database, effectively putting an end to WebCrawler as an independent search engine. Later that year, Excite (then called Excite@Home) went bankrupt and WebCrawler was bought by InfoSpace in 2001.

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   The company's meta-search engine blends the top search results from Google Search and Yahoo Search, to search for images, audio, video, news, yellow pages and white pages, enabling users to separately identify sponsored and non-sponsored search results from most of the popular search engines.

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   Pinkerton, WebCrawler's creator, led the Amazon A9.com search division as of 2012. [9] [10] In July 2016, InfoSpace was sold by parent company Blucora to OpenMail for $45 million, putting WebCrawler under the ownership of OpenMail. [11]

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   WebCrawler was developed by Brian Pinkerton in his spare time while a student at the University of Washington. At birth, WebCrawler was a desktop application, not a Web search engine as it is...

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   Apr 16, 2024 · 2016: System1, a technology company specializing in consumer apps and websites, acquired WebCrawler. These changes in ownership, along with the emergence of competitors like Google, had a significant impact on WebCrawler‘s market position.

7. www.searchenginewatch.com › 2003/03/04 › where-areWhere Are They Now? Search Engines We've Known & Loved

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   Mar 4, 2003 · WebCrawler (1994; reborn 2001): WebCrawler still exists as a meta search engine that gets results from other search engines, rather than through its own efforts. Now owned by Infospace, WebCrawler was arguably the web’s first crawler-based search engine in the way we know them today.

8. webscrapingsite.com › blog › does-webcrawler-stillDoes WebCrawler Still Exist? The Pioneering Search Engine‘s ...

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   It changed hands again in 2016, acquired by web advertising company System1. While System1 gave WebCrawler a visual refresh in 2018, the fundamental product remains little changed – a basic search interface powered by results from Google and Bing‘s syndicated search partners program.

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   WebCrawler still exists and is chugging along. According to Wikipedia, the website last changed hands in 2016 and the homepage was redesigned in 2018. Since then it has been working under the same company: System1.