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The Forgotten Father of Web Search

Posted September 04, 2013 9:44 AM

From BBC News - Technology:

As Google celebrates its 15th birthday, the web giant has become a byword for information retrieval. But if you put Jonathon Fletcher's name into a Google search, none of the immediate results hint to the role he played in the development of the world wide web. There is certainly nothing that credits him as the father of the modern search engine.

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09/05/2013 10:52 AM

I'm surprised they didn't mention Altavista, which went public in 1995.

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