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Father Of The First Search Engine Jonathon Fletcher
- CRI Hong Kong, Monday, October 14, 2013 12:09 PM
Jonathon Fletcher was invited in May 2013 to a panel in Dublin to celebrate 20 years of Web search, alongside people from Google, Yahoo and Microsoft. It's there that Professor Mark Sanderson from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology told Fletcher that he is the "father of the search engine." In 1993, Fletcher developed the world's first Web crawler while working in the computer lab of Stirling University in the United Kingdom. This Web crawler, JumpStation, could automatically scan and index Web pages, making it possible to find information from across the Web.
