Archie, created in 1990, was the first form of search engine that indexed FTP archives, allowing users to find specific files. An Archie server indexed the contents of public FTP servers, and users could search the file names in the indexed server.But who remembers the pre-Google world of search As in such once-prominent search engines as AltaVista, Excite, Lycos, WebCrawler and even one called Ask Jeeves. It's hard to believe now that these and others were the go-to sources for many internet users in the '90s, but indeed they were.History

Year	Engine	Current status
1997	Yandex	Active
1998	Google	Active
Ixquick	Active as Startpage.com
MSN Search	Active as Bing

What did we use before Google : We Used Yahoo, Lycos, or AltaVista for Search

Back then, Yahoo was considered "good," to quote this 1998 article usability by Jakob Nielsen.

What was the search engine in 1998

Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph. D. students at Stanford University. The company was created to develop a search engine that would use a new algorithm, called PageRank, to rank web pages based on their relevance to a user's query.

What search engine was developed in 1996 : In 1996, other search engines began to emerge, such as AltaVista, Excite, and Lycos. These search engines used automated methods to index web pages, making it easier for users to find the information they were looking for.

Ask Jeeves launched in beta in mid-April 1997 and fully launched on June 1, 1997. On September 18, 2001, Ask Jeeves acquired Teoma for over $1.5 million. In July 2005, Ask Jeeves was acquired by IAC. In February 2006, Jeeves was removed from Ask Jeeves and the search engine rebranded to Ask.

Ask Jeeves lasted until roughly 2005, when it was rebranded as Ask.com. The company attempted to invade Yahoo Answers' territory by focusing on a real-person Q&A site, but Ask.com ended its foray into search engineering in 2010. Ask.com is ranked No. 128 in the world, according to Alexa.

Is Bing beating Google

While Google still dominates the market, providing additional search features and taking a mobile-first approach to indexing, Microsoft Bing has vastly improved its offering to differentiate itself from competitors, heading towards a more visually immersive search experience.Before Bing's inception, Microsoft launched MSN Search in 1998, which primarily relied on search results sourced from Inktomi. In the early 2000s, MSN Search transitioned to using results from its proprietary search engine, bolstered by the acquisition of technology from the company called Lookout.Google has its origins in "BackRub", a research project that was begun in 1996 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were both PhD students at Stanford University in Stanford, California.

BackRub was an early search engine from the 1990s which is now regarded as the predecessor of the Google search engine.

What search engine was popular in 1999 : By 1999, Yahoo's search engine had grown significantly in popularity, and the company was receiving over 1 billion search queries per month.

Was Google around in 1999 : And then it grew up and needed to work for a living.

Was there Internet in 1997

The web browser of choice was Netscape Navigator, followed by Microsoft Internet Explorer as a distant second (Microsoft launched IE 3 in 1996). Most people used dial-up Internet connections with mighty speeds ranging from 28.8Kbps to 33.6Kbps. Highly modern 56Kbps modems would arrive in 1997.

Netscape Navigator.

This development marked the beginning of the competitive struggle between browsers, a struggle marked, above all, by Microsoft and Netscape. In 1997 the company launched Netscape Navigator 2.0, the first browser with Java script language on web pages.On July 8, 2013, the service was shut down by Yahoo!, and since then the domain has redirected to Yahoo!'s own search site. U.S.

Is Ask Jeeves still online : Ask Jeeves lasted until roughly 2005, when it was rebranded as Ask.com. The company attempted to invade Yahoo Answers' territory by focusing on a real-person Q&A site, but Ask.com ended its foray into search engineering in 2010. Ask.com is ranked No. 128 in the world, according to Alexa.