Editing WebCrawler (section)

{{about|the [[search engine]]|web crawling programs in general|web crawler}}
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{{short description|Web search engine}}
{{Infobox website
| name = WebCrawler
| logo = Webcrawler logo 2018.png
| logo_caption = Logo since 2018
| caption = Logo since 2018
| url = {{URL|webcrawler.com}}
| commercial = No
| type = [[Search engine]]
| language = [[English language|English]]
| registration = none
| owner = [[System1]]
| author = Brian Pinkerton
| current_status = Active
| launch_date = {{Start date and age|1994|04|20}}
}}

'''WebCrawler''' is a [[search engine]], and one of the oldest surviving search engines on the web today. For many years, it operated as a [[metasearch engine]]. WebCrawler was the first web search engine to provide full text search.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |url=http://www.thehistoryofseo.com/The-Industry/Short_History_of_Early_Search_Engines.aspx |title=Short History of Early Search Engines |publisher=The History of SEO |access-date=2019-02-03 |archive-date=2019-01-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190121213229/http://www.thehistoryofseo.com/The-Industry/Short_History_of_Early_Search_Engines.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref>