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People of Search

Tim Berners-Lee

  • 1992 - Founds The WWW Virtual Library.

Patrice Bertin

  • 2000 - Co-founds Exalead.

David Bodnick

  • 1998 - Founds Ixquick.

Francois Bourdoncle

  • 2000 - Co-founds Exalead.

Sergey Brin

  • 1996 - Begins working on BackRub, Google's predecessor.
  • 1998 - Google launched.

Mike Cafarella

  • 2003 - Creates Nutch an open source web crawler with Doug Cutting.

Michael Christen

  • 2003 - Launches what will become YaCy, a distributed search engine.

Aaron Collins

  • 1995 - Launches MetaCrawler.

Patrick Constant

  • 2013 - Launches Qwant.

Doug Cutting

  • 1999 - Writes Lucene.
  • 2003 - Creates Nutch an open source web crawler with Mike Cafarella.

Gary Culliss

  • 1996 - Working on "popularity engine" at MIT that becomes Direct Hit Technologies.
  • 1998 - Direct Hit Technologies released.

Tor Egge

  • 1998 - Launches AlltheWeb.

Tracy Ellery

  • 1995 - Co-founds LookSmart.

Orien Etzioni

  • 1995 - Launches MetaCrawler.

David Filo

  • 1994 - Co-founds Yahoo!

Jonathan Fletcher

  • 1993 - Creates JumpStation.

Wolfe Garbe

  • 2005 - Launches Faroo, a distributed search engine.

Bill Gross

  • 1998 - Launches GoTo (Overture).
  • 2004 - Launches SNAP.

Arne Halaas

  • 1997 - One of the core contributors to FAST.

Li Hanyong

  • 2000 - Launches Baidu.

Naveen Jain

  • 1996 - Founds InfoSpace.

Subhash Kak

  • 1999 - Launches meta search engine Anvish.

Gene Kan

  • 2000 - Launches InfraSearch, a distributed search engine.

Steve Kirsch

  • 1994 - Launches Infoseek

Martijn Koster

  • 1993 - Creates Aliweb.
  • 1994 - Proposes Robots Exclusion Standard.

Joe Kraus

  • 1993 - Contributed to Architext, eventually to become Excite.

Sundar Kundayam

  • 2007 - Launches Zakta, a collaborative search engine.

Eric Landri

  • 2013 - Launches Qwant.

John M. Lervik

  • 1997 - One of the core contributors to FAST.

Robin Li

  • 1996 - Creates RankDex site-scoring algorithm.
  • 2000 - Launches Baidu.

Ben Lutch

  • 1993 - Contributed to Architext, eventually to become Excite.

Michael Loren Mauldin

  • 1994 - Launches Lycos.

Oliver McBryan

  • 1994 - Launches World-Web Web Worm

Ryan McIntyre

  • 1993 - Contributed to Architext, eventually to become Excite.

Steve Newcomb

  • 2006 - Co-founds Powerset a natural language search engine.

Oscar Nierstrasz

  • 1993 - Creates first web search engine, W3Catalog.

Larry Page

  • 1996 - Begins working on BackRub, Google's predecessor.
  • 1998 - Google launched.

Barney Pell

  • 2006 - Co-founds Powerset a natural language search engine.

Brian Pinkerton

  • 1994 - Launches WebCrawler.

Martin Reinfried

  • 1993 - Contributed to Architext, eventually to become Excite.

Jean-Manuel Rozan

  • 2013 - Launches Qwant.

Ilya Segalovich

  • 1997 - Co-founds Yandex.

Bo Shu

  • 1999 - Launches meta search engine Anvish.

Rich Skrenta

  • 1998 - Launches Gnuhoo (Open Directory Project/DMoZ).
  • 2010 - Cofounds Blekko.

Marc Smith

  • 2004 - Launches Mojeek.

Graham Spencer

  • 1993 - Contributed to Architext, eventually to become Excite.

Lorenzo Thione

  • 2006 - Co-founds Powerset a natural language search engine.

Evan Thornley

  • 1995 - Co-founds LookSmart.

Bob Truel

  • 1998 - Launches Gnuhoo (Open Directory Project/DMoZ).

Jan-Willem Tusveld

  • 1998 - Launches Vinden.nl (ZapMeta).

Mark VanHaren

  • 1993 - Contributed to Architext, eventually to become Excite.

Arkady Volozh

  • 1997 - Co-founds Yandex.

Steve Waterhouse

  • 2000 - Launches InfraSearch, a distributed search engine.

Matt Wells

  • 2000 - Founds Gigablast.

Jerry Yang

  • 1994 - Co-founds Yahoo!

Steven Yang

  • 1996 - Working on "popularity engine" at MIT that becomes Direct Hit Technologies.
  • 1998 - Direct Hit Technologies released.

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