full list ) Year Engine Event 1993 Aliweb Launch 1994 WebCrawler Launch Infoseek Launch Lycos Launch 1995 AltaVista Launch Open Text Web Index Launch [1] Magellan Launch Excite Launch SAPO Launch 1996 Dogpile Launch Inktomi Founded HotBot Founded Ask Jeeves Founded 1997 Northern Light Launch Yandex Launch 1998 Google Launch 1999