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Webcrawler was the Internet's first search engine that performed keyword searches in both the names and texts of pages on the World Wide Web. It won quick popularity and loyalty among surfers looking for information. Despite the fact that competitors like Yahoo!, AltaVista, Lycos, HotBot, Northern Light, and Infoseek have long overtaken Webcrawler in popularity and power, its name remains synonymous with search engines, and some, like Metacrawler, still pay homage to this pioneer. During the Web's infancy, Webcrawler was born in January 1994....
