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Oliver McBryan Develops a Search Engine Called the "World Wide Web Worm"

1994
Screenshot of the World Wide Web Worm
Screenshot of the World Wide Web Worm

In 1994 an early web search engine, the World Wide Web Worm, developed in September 1993 by Oliver McBryan at the University of Colorado at Boulder, had an index of 110,000 pages and web-accessible documents. It received an average of 1500 queries per day.

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