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WebCrawler, a metasearch engine similar to MetaCrawler, was acquired by InfoSpace, Inc. in 2001. Results are displayed in order of relevance, including natural Web results and sponsored listings. WebCrawler offers an Advanced Search, Preferences and its own SearchSpy, identical to MetCrawler's MetaSpy, which provides recent searches by WebCrawler users.
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| Partners | WebCrawler searches results on Google, Yahoo!, Ask Jeeves, About, and AltaVista.SuperPages.com provides Yellow Pages listings.
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| Advertising | Guaranteed Search Inclusion: Web sites submitted to WebCrawler are also included in the InfoSpace Search Partner Network, which includes InfoSpace, Dogpile, MetaCrawler and NBC.
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| Headquarters | Bellevue, Wash. |
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| Timeline |
| 2001 |
WebCrawler joins the InfoSpace Network.
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| 1999 |
WebCrawler's spider "Hunter" joins the metasearch engine.
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| 1997 |
Excite acquires WebCrawler.
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| 1995 |
WebCrawler joins AOL.
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| 1994 |
WebCrawler is introduced as a desktop application and goes live later in the year.
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| Last Update: 09/12/08 |
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