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| 1991 || || || "It is believed that SEO was born in 1991. Around this time, the world’s first website was launched, and one quickly turned into many as websites crowded the internet. So, there was a huge need for structure and accessibility, and the world’s first search engines were created. "<ref name="bluefrogdm.coms">{{cite web |title=A BRIEF HISTORY OF SEO |url=https://www.bluefrogdm.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-seo |website=bluefrogdm.com |accessdate=7 January 2020}}</ref>
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| 1991 || || || [[w:Gopher (protocol)|Gopher]] system is released by Mark P. McCahill, Farhad Anklesaria, Paul Lindner, Daniel Torrey, and Bob Alberti of the {{w|University of Minnesota}}<ref name="wwwunleashed">{{cite book|last=December|last2=Randall|first=John|first2=Neil|page=[https://archive.org/details/worldwidewebunle00dece/page/20 20]|title=The World Wide Web unleashed|year=1994|publisher=Sams Publishing|isbn=1-57521-040-1|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/worldwidewebunle00dece/page/20}}</ref> Gopher is considered to be the first search engine using a hypertext paradigm.<ref name="thehistoryofseo.com">{{cite web |title=The History of Search Engine Optimization |url=http://www.thehistoryofseo.com/The-Industry/The_History_of_Search_Engine_Optimization.aspx |website=thehistoryofseo.com |accessdate=6 January 2020}}</ref>
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| 1993 || || || {{w|Excite}} is born as a {{w|Stanford University}} project called Architext involving six undergraduate students seeking to use statistical analysis of word relationships to improve relevancy of searches on the Internet.<ref name="thehistoryofseo.com">{{cite web |title=Short History of Early Search Engines |url=http://www.thehistoryofseo.com/The-Industry/Short_History_of_Early_Search_Engines.aspx |website=thehistoryofseo.com |accessdate=6 April 2020}}</ref> Excite would revolutionize how information is categorized.<ref name="bluefrogdm.coms"/>
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| 1993 || || || "For example, in 1992, Gopher became the first search engine using a hypertext paradigm. Only a year later, the The graphical Mosaic web browser improved Gopher’s improves [[w:Gopher (protocol)|Gopher]]’s primarily text-based interface. About the same time, Wandex became the first search engine to crawl the web indexing and searching indexed pages on the web."<ref name="thehistoryofseo.com"/>
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| 1993 || || || "For example, in 1992, Gopher became the first search engine using a hypertext paradigm. Only a year later, the graphical Mosaic web browser improved Gopher’s primarily text-based interface. About the same time, {{w|Wandex became }} becomes the first search engine to crawl the web indexing and searching indexed pages on the webWeb."<ref name="thehistoryofseo.com"/>
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| 1993 || February || || "February 1993: Six Stanford students create Architext, which would later become the search engine Excite. Some, like Search Engine Land (SEL), say that Excite “revolutionized how information was cataloged,” making it easier to find information “by sorting results based on keywords found within content and backend optimization.”"<ref name="A Brief History of Search & SEO">{{cite web |title=A Brief History of Search & SEO |url=https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/a-brief-history-of-search-seo |website=blog.hubspot.com |accessdate=6 January 2020}}</ref>
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