Which is the oldest search engine of the internet?
Which is the oldest search engine of the internet?
(A) Hot Bot
(B) Ask.com
(C) Yahoo
(D) Google
Yahoo is considered one of the oldest search engines. It was started in January 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo as a web directory called "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web". Later in the same year, it was renamed Yahoo. To give a perspective, the first internet search engine was Archie, launched in 1990.
Yahoo: Founded in January 1994.
Hot Bot: Launched in May 1996 by Wired magazine.
Ask.com (originally Ask Jeeves): Founded in 1996 and launched in 1997.