Editing WebCrawler (section)

== Traffic ==

WebCrawler was highly successful early on.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.wisegeek.com/what-was-the-first-search-engine.htm|title=What was the First Search Engine?|last=McGuigan|first=Brendan|date=2007|website=WiseGeek|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070427154159/http://www.wisegeek.com/what-was-the-first-search-engine.htm|archive-date=2007-04-27|access-date=2019-02-18}}</ref> At one point, it was unusable during peak times due to server overload.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.searchenginehistory.com/|title=Search Engine History.com|website=www.searchenginehistory.com|access-date=2019-01-25}}</ref> It was the second most visited website on the internet in February 1996, but it quickly dropped below rival search engines and directories such as [[Yahoo!]], [[Infoseek]], [[Lycos]], and [[Excite (web portal)|Excite]] in 1997.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://tech.co/news/top-20-popular-websites-1996-present-infographic-2014-12|title=Infographic: Top 20 Most Popular Websites (1996-2013)|date=2014-12-26|website=TechCo|language=en|access-date=2019-01-15}}</ref>