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  • (Score: 2) by mendax on Friday April 10 2015, @06:30AM

    by mendax (2840) on Friday April 10 2015, @06:30AM (#168653)

    While Archie was my first Internet-based search engine, strictly speaking, the first search engine I ever used was the public library's card catalog. You can't go much farther back than that and still be living!

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 10 2015, @08:41AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 10 2015, @08:41AM (#168672)

    No, the public library's card catalog was no search engine, it was a directory. Yahoo also used to provide a directory to web pages, but the web grew to large for that to be manageable.

    Building a directory automatically is still an unsolved problem.