The URL internet address of this
“Main search engines” web page is:
https://www.angelfire.com/blog/hja/mainengines.html
the lists below being retrieved from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_search_engine
in 2009 and updated 2010-2011.
Example of mixed choice of systems:
mac pc lin
ub
win
os browser
player
wo
The following Web browsers have been used
from these years, often simultaneously
for a
multitude of different applications:
WorldWideWeb 1991, Mosaic 1993,
Metacrawler 1994, WebCrawler 1994,
Netscape Navigator 1994, Explorer 1995,
Opera 1996, Safari 2003, Mozilla Firefox 2004,
Google Chrome 2008, Multiple Internets 2008,
Special4u Smart Selective System 2008.
A Smart Selective System has been set up
combining search and research models and
patterns determined as:
multi-lingual, multi-directional,
multi-dimensional, “multi-fractals”.
Search engines giving Special4u or some content
in any of its 18 main pages on 1st
place as nr 1
on the top of their own search and ranking systems
by 2009 as listed below, are shown with symbols
such as # 1... Click on or touch these symbols.
Search engines giving Special4u or any of
its main pages on the top 20 of their search
and ranking systems are shown here below
with letters as B... Click on or touch these
letters to see the positions on their own
search and rankings by 2009.
Some other less well-known or more specialized
search engines not showing yet this Special4u
reference by 2009 are listed below as examples
but not marked with any symbol or letter.
These 2009 positions of the Special4u site
ought to be compared anew by the end of
2011-beginning of 2012 to see evidence of a
yearly improvement.
Here follows a list sorted by a year timeline:
Aliweb The oldest search engine developed
by Martijn Koster from the Netherlands.
Aliweb is now sold to ATC.
If you don’t see this picture below, click on
or touch frame, or these links:
http://www.greenhills.co.uk/mak/mak.html
https://www.angelfire.com/blog/hja/martinkoster.JPG
Martijn Koster, a Dutch student born 1970,
considered at
age 23 the first developer of
search engine
industries now often valued
in billions of €.
By 29 Nov 2009, € 1 = $ 1.5 (1.499 exactly).
JumpStation, see at Google and Wikipedia,
was discontinued 1994.
Lycos # 1 # 2 1st and 2nd
ranking
Metacrawler # 1 B Special4u started 1994
to work on Metacrawler.
AltaVista # 1 # 2 1st and 2nd
ranking
Magellan is at Enriva.com
Inktomi = Yahoo # 1 # 3 # 4 ranking
HotBot # 1 # 2 1st and 2nd
ranking
Ask Jeeves # 1 # 2 1st and 2nd
ranking
Google # 1 # 2 1st and 2nd ranking
Yandex Russian
About.com is not listed as a search engine
but as an online source for original information
and advice. It is
written in English, and is aimed
primarily at North
Americans. It is owned by
AlltheWeb # 1 # 2 1st and 2nd
ranking
Teoma thru Ask # 1 # 2 1st and 2nd
ranking
Naver South
Korean
Baidu Chinese
Exalead French
Yahoo!
Search Yahoo # 1 # 3 # 4 ranking
Sogou Chinese
Ask.com # 1 # 2 1st and 2nd
ranking
GoodSearch # 1 1st ranking
MSN Search through bing B
Live Search through bing B
Quaero Français English Deutsch
Guruji.com
Sproose # 1 # 3 # 5 1st, 3rd
and 5th ranking
Sperse # 1 # 3 # 6 1st, 3rd
and 6th ranking
Viewzi # 1 # 2 1st and 2nd
ranking
Forestle # 1 # 2 1st and 2nd
ranking
Picollator Russian
English
Boogami slow
downloading
Yebol # 1 # 3 # 5 1st, 3rd
and 5th ranking
Mugurdy # 1 # 2 1st and 2nd ranking
(Click on or touch to follow link)
Mozilla Updates Firefox
To Fix 'Highly Critical'
Security Flaws
By Elizabeth
Millard, toptechnews.com
Thu May 12, 2010,
The Mozilla Foundation has released a security update
for its Firefox open-source browser after exploit code
was made public for two "extremely critical"
vulnerabilities.
Firefox 1.0.4 includes security fixes, as well as a
correction
for DHTML errors seen on some Web sites.
The security updates address two vulnerabilities that
were
rated as "extremely critical" by Danish
security firm Secunia
and involved cross-site scripting and
remote-system-access flaws.
Big
Hole
Secunia did not have any reported cases of the
vulnerabilities
being used by malicious hackers, but said that, when
combined,
the flaws could be exploited in several ways.
For example, one flaw with how the browser treated
IFRAMEs
and JavaScript could have allowed an attacker to steal
cookie
information from sites that had been visited by an
unsuspecting
user.
The data could be used for identity theft or to get
passwords.
Another vulnerability was in the IconURL parameter,
which could allow an attacker to gain user privileges.
When it learned of the vulnerabilities, Mozilla acted
quickly,
changing its update Web service and advising users
to disable JavaScript temporarily.
Patch
Work
The update follows another Mozilla security update for
Firefox,
issued at the end of February.
In that update, Firefox 1.0.1, patches were put in
place to block
flaws with how the browser treated Internationalized
Domain Names
(IDNs) as well as some flaws related to arbitrary code
execution and
cross-site scripting.
Unlike the current issues, however, the earlier
problems were rated
as only "moderately critical" to "not
critical" by Mozilla.
Browser
Bugs
The security issues seen recently with Firefox do not
set the browser
apart from others, said Secunia researcher Thomas
Kristensen.
"Vulnerabilities appear with every browser, and
Firefox isn't immune,"
he said. "You're talking about a multilayered,
complex piece of
technology. It's going to have bugs."
Mozilla has noted that it will evaluate security
issues on an ongoing basis,
with more security updates in the future when
warranted.
The group advises Firefox users to download the
updated version from its site.
Before there were any
web search engines,
there was a complete
list of all webservers.
The list was edited
by Tim Berners-Lee and
hosted at the CERN webserver.
Special4u started to work with Metacrawler in 1994,
added Wikipedia in 2001, Yahoo in 2004, and
completed 2005 to 2009 with selected functions from:
Google YouTube Wiki Wikt Yahoo Dic Dmoz Whatis
YP Np Pb Ex
Sk Ma Tr Mu Pa Blo Ga Mo Ha Art Sp
Sophisticated designs Beautiful sites DHT
More about search engines at Google:
Search engine definition at Wikipedia
popular search engines by country
science search engine for kids
The full list of search
engines
Examples of system options:
Lists
of WP programs & software
Lists
of Download Accelerators
Example of mixed choice of systems:
mac pc lin
ub
win
os browser
player
wo
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