more than any other search engine. It is still running. Altavista -- First to provide natural language queries, it had search tips and allowed users to add or remove an URL within 24 hours from publication. In 1996 it became the exclusive provider of search results for Yahoo! Traffic topped 80 million hits a day in 1997. It is still running. Excite -- One of the major dotcom portals in the 1990s it went bankrupt in 1998 but was purchased and is still running. Daum -- A popular web portal in South Korea, it raised its service merging with hanmail.net. It is still running. Yahoo Search -- It began as a collection of web pages and then evolved into a search engine with a man-made description of any provided URL. It is still running. 1995: Looksmart -- It used to be a big provider, but turned to pay-per-click and destroyed its reliability. It has been depending on MSN to stay running. 1995: Inktomi/Hotbot -- Hotbot was the internet search engine of Wired magazine, but was brought down when a merger with Inkomi revealed they had let the public access a database of spam sites. 1997: Yandex -- It holds the largest search market share in Russia with over 10 billion pages indexed. Still running. 1998: Google -- The big boy of search, it launched with the PageRank technology and was quickly selected by AOL and Yahoo as a search partner. It added features throughout the 2000s becoming the most important