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Web Search Before Google: Search Engine History And some random facts about google.   Did Google always dominate the web search market? In the second of three posts on the history of the Search Engines, I look at the pioneers of the early search market, including the very first web crawler, WWW Wanderer. Did you know that Disney used to be one of the largest players in the business? Or that Altavista was more technically advanced, in many ways, in 1998 than Google is now? Read on! Random facts : The name 'Google' is actually derived from the mathematical term 'googol' which is basically 1 with a 100 zeros following it   The pioneering Web Search Engines Indeed, the point at which modern search engines first began to appear is after the development and popularization of the MOSAIC browser in 1993. In 1994, Internet Magazine was launched, together with a review of the top 100 websites billed as the ‘most extensive’ List ever to appear ...