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  • Larry Page and Sergey Brin, creators of the online search engine Google
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    JumpStation, created by Jonathon Fletcher of the University of Stirling in Scotland, followed in December of 1993. Given that the new Web-searching tool included a user interface, it is remembered today as the first to incorporate all three major components (crawling, indexing, and searching) that…

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    JumpStation, created by Jonathon Fletcher of the University of Stirling in Scotland, followed in December of 1993. Given that the new Web-searching tool included a user interface, it is remembered today as the first to incorporate all three major components (crawling, indexing, and searching) that…

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