Yahoo! Search supplemented with its directory of websites. The results were presented to the user under the Yahoo! brand. Originally, none of the actual web crawling and data housing was done by Yahoo! itself. In 2001, the searchable index was powered by Inktomi and later was powered by Google until 2004, when Yahoo! Search became independent. On July 29, 2009, Microsoft and Yahoo! announced a deal in which Bing would henceforth power Yahoo! Search. Seeking to provide its own search engine results, Yahoo! acquired their own search technology. In 2002, they bought Inktomi, a "behind the scenes" or OEM search engine provider,
Searchers (search engine) and attended by Culture Minister Edward Vaizey. It achieved moderate coverage across a range of print and online news sources, including the Accrington Observer, Tech Watch and The Register. A related adjournment debate was scheduled on 5 April 2011 by Esher and Walton MP Dominic Raab, entitled Net Neutrality, during which Edward Vaizey confirmed his intention to visit Reach Global and its search engine. Searchers (search engine) Searchers is an internet search engine launched to the public in February 2005. It is a locally hosted web search engine claiming the largest web index in the United Kingdom. Searchers, named Searchers.com