search engine in the world. It is, of course, still highly active. 1998: MSN -- Relying on Overture, Looksmart and Inktomi, it was upgraded in 2004 and replaced by Bing in 2009. 1999: Open Directory Project DMOZ -- By that time DMOZ was the largest internet directory run by volunteers, with listings from which a direct download was possible. It is still alive, but owned by AOL. 1999: AllTheWeb -- It presented a sleek interface with some advantages over Google and Yahoo, like direct FTP search. It was bought by Overture in 2003 and rolled into Yahoo, who unfortunately ceased most of those features. The New Century - 2000s The new century brought many innovations to search engines as computers got faster and capable of utilizing more data. 2000:Vivismo -- It is well known since 2005 as it was awarded the contract to power the search portion of FirstGov.gov (now called USA.gov). 2000: Baidu -- The China's giant search engine, it reached in a few years something like 740 million web pages indexed, mostly in the Chinese sphere. In 2007, it became the first Chinese company to be included in the NASDAQ -- 100 index. 2002: Info.com -- A metasearch engine which provided pay-per-click results. It is partnered with the White and Yellow Pages. 2002: Overture -- Formerly Goto.com, it was the first to provide a pay-per-click placement search service. It was bought out by Yahoo. 2003: A9 -- The Amazon search engine. 2004: SearchMe -- A visual search engine,