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The Webcrawler search engine itself is also still available today.

1995 through 2006 were busy years for the introduction of new search engines onto the World Wide Web. Alta Vista and Excite appeared in 1995 and still offer their services today. Dogpile, Inktomi, Hotbot and Ask Jeeves, as well as Northern Light were introduced throughout 1996 and 1997. Ask Jeeves was founded by David Warthen and Garrett Gruener in April of 1997, by October of 1998 it was receiving 300,000 searches per day, by May of that same year it was receiving 1 million searches a day and by October it was up to an amazing 2 million hits per day. In 2006 Ask Jeeves was reintroduced as Ask.com and as of March 2007 it sits as the number four most popular search engine on the web.

In 1998 Overture launched itself on the web under its original name of GoTo, and was historically the first search engine to introduce users to the world of "paid search", it also brought to the attention of the world a new concept that we now refer to as "pay per click".

In 1996 Larry Page and Sergey Brin began work on a search engine that they dubbed "Back Rub" Their program had something new, an ability to trace "back links" and word about this new search technology spread quickly. In order to market their search technology to the world, Google Inc was created in September of 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. On the World Wide Web it was already garnering 10,000 searches per day. By September of 1999 Google would be receiving approximately 3million searches each day. By 2001 Google had reached up and into the upper ranks of the World Wide Web and today it is ranked as the number one search engine out there. There is also little chance of it being knocked out of this positioning by its competitors. In February of 2006 Googles market share rose to 42.3 percent up from 36.3 percent the previous year and analysts predict future gains possibly reaching upwards and into the 70 percent range. There just seems to be no stopping Google!

In 1999 the search engines AlltheWeb, Naver, Teoma and Vivisimo were created. Yahoo was created in 1994. They saw the value in and were busy purchasing search companies but it wasn't until February of 2004 that they created their own Yahoo! Search. The Yahoo search engine quickly commenced to claw its way up to the number two search engine spot on the Web. In July of 2004 Microsoft's MSN launched their own search engine using Yahoo! systems, then in January of 2005 they switched from Yahoo!'s

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