Bing (search engine) web crawler. In early 1999, MSN Search launched a version which displayed listings from Looksmart blended with results from Inktomi except for a short time in 1999 when results from AltaVista were used instead. Since then Microsoft upgraded MSN Search to provide its own self-built search engine results, the index of which was updated weekly and sometimes daily. The upgrade started as a beta program in November 2004, and came out of beta in February 2005. Image search was powered by a third party, Picsearch. The service also started providing its search results to other search engine portals in an
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,