Hmm, I'm sure there have been searching engines older than that. It all depends on what you call a search engine. There have been search engines that search around your computer for files before there were ones that search on the web.

Oh, this reminds me... I remember when my dad used to have this book of all the sites on the Internet (with the capital I)... It's kinda weird now...

You know... talking about this oldest search engine thing, what's the use of it anyways? I mean being the oldest search engine doesn't mean the website is any "cooler" or "popular".
Especially aliweb.com. They state on the title bar so clearly that they are the oldest search engine

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You know... talking about this oldest search engine thing, what's the use of it anyways? I mean being the oldest search engine doesn't mean the website is any "cooler" or "popular".
Especially aliweb.com. They state on the title bar so clearly that they are the oldest search engine but their search engine doesn't work well at all. Basically it is run on advertisments and my guess is that the only way it gets people's attention is to state that it is the world's oldest search engine. Do you agree?

never heard of it.. ill def check it out.. to c how bad it is.. or how good it is lol

i use yahoo... and sometimes google..

I searched for "doom" and it came up with something. Funny how it doesn't come up with Google though.

did you know that google was EXTREMELY cheap to invest in when it first came out( like in the hundreds) and now those investors gained over 300,000 from it. i would say thats worth it.

As i've searched the internet i found that the oldest search engine is "Archie"
Here's a link for more information about search engine history.
http://www.seoconsultants.com/search%2Dengines/history/

The things people will do to get recognition. Interesting topic, though. Bonnie's link states that Aliweb was, in fact, out in 1993. However, there are several other mentions of others classed as search engines, although whether or not they were in the same "class" as Aliweb, who knows? Correct me if I'm wrong, but that "Archie" search engine could've been an engine that searched only, say, a single site? Or a single tiny database? I don't know enough about the internet to speculate, so I'll leave it to the pros.

But cool topic. xD

Good ole Lycos, I used to use that alot because it had so much going on the page. Eventually it had to much going on and I started playing checkers on Yahoo and never came back.