Web search engine Overture (which owned AlltheWeb and AltaVista) in 2003. Yahoo! switched to Google's search engine until 2004, when it launched its own search engine based on the combined technologies of its acquisitions. Microsoft first launched MSN Search in the fall of 1998 using search results from Inktomi. In early 1999 the site began to display listings from Looksmart, blended with results from Inktomi. For a short time in 1999, MSN Search used results from AltaVista instead. In 2004, Microsoft began a transition to its own search technology, powered by its own web crawler (called msnbot). Microsoft's rebranded search engine, Bing, was
Distributed search engine decentralized search engine project launched in August 2018 aiming to build fully decentralized search service on top of decentralized web. It shares advertising revenue to both content providers and peers that participate in indexing and ranking operations. Dweb.page is an open source webpage that lets you share and search content on the distributed web based on IPFS. The search engine is running inside the webpage and uses a subscriber system to load relevant metadata. Distributed search engine A distributed search engine is a search engine where there is no central server. Unlike traditional centralized search engines, work such as crawling,