What Language(s)/technology was used to make the old school search engines like Excite, Altavista, Lycos?

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What Language(s)/technology was used to make the old school search engines like Excite, Altavista, Lycos?

I'm just doing some research into the Language(s) and Technologies used to build the old school search engines like Excite, Altavista, Lycos and Ask Jeeves?

What i would love to know is the Technology used to create them originally and the databases used?for example the first version of Google.com was built using Java and Python.

Thank you in advance ;-)

Google employees Jeffrey Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat say in their paper "MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters" that Google used ad hoc distribution of the processing of their big input file for the indexing, including 3800 LOC C++ for one (!) phase.

I guess working code was a big mixture of hand refined high level languages and scripts to pass the data around to many machines. No databases until GFS + Bigtable were around.

Leonidas 2010-01-25 14:23:35

Perl was the main old skool language.

Are you getting us to do our homework for you?

Sqoo 2010-01-25 14:25:18

But perl may have not used on larger bandwidth sites, where I would have thought C/C++ would have held sway. Of course the computing power / network bandwidth ratio was rather different back then!Google os a completely different kettle of fish being far more recent in development.

Sqoo 2010-01-25 14:33:54

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