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WebCrawler

An early web search engine (1994) that indexed full page text rather than just titles and URLs, establishing a model for modern web search.

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WebCrawler Developed by Brian Pinkerton at the University of Washington

In spring 1994, Brian Pinkerton at the University of Washington deployed WebCrawler, a web search engine that used an automated crawler to index the full text of web pages, enabling users to search document content rather than titles or URLs alone.