The History of Private Search Engines
How did private search engines become a thing?
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6 min readApr 9, 2018
The first search engine, Archie Query Form, was developed in 1990, but this search engine looked nothing like today’s well-known search engines. For example, Yahoo! started in 1994 and Google launched in 1998.
Initially the big search engines didn’t do the amount of tracking that they do now…
