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  • Larry Page and Sergey Brin, creators of the online search engine Google
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    It was Brian Pinkerton’s WebCrawler, one of the few search engines of its time that remained active into the first quarter of the 21st century, that first allowed users to search for any word on any Web page it had indexed. Launched on April 20, 1994, the tool became…

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    It was Brian Pinkerton’s WebCrawler, one of the few search engines of its time that remained active into the first quarter of the 21st century, that first allowed users to search for any word on any Web page it had indexed. Launched on April 20, 1994, the tool became…

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