To date, almost no information has been preserved about the very first search engines of the Russian-speaking segment of the Internet. The names and names of the first Runet search engines have sunk into oblivion, it is only known that there were 2 or 3 of them, and at the moment they do not exist.
It is generally accepted that the history of the first search engines in the Russian segment of the Internet dates back to 1995. It was this year that a morphological extension to the Altavista search engine became available to Runet users. Almost after the expansion, the original search engines Aport and Rambler appeared, which are considered the first Russian search engines.
AltaVista was launched in December 1995 and was backed by the most powerful DEC Alpha computing server available at the time. It was the fastest search engine that could handle millions of searches per day.
Aport
The Aport search engine was shown to the general public a few months earlier than Rambler in February 1996. At the time of its launch, the car searched only on the site russia.agama.com. Later, the Aport developers demonstrated extreme sluggishness in the development of their project, setting up a search for a very long time, first on 4 servers, then on 6. Aport learned to index the entire Runet only by November 1997, and then its official presentation took place. By this time, another search engine called Rambler was already successfully operating in the Russian-speaking segment.
Despite all these circumstances, the Aportu until the early 2000s. managed to successfully compete with the main market players Rambler and Yandex, and enter the list of search leaders in Runet. Subsequently, the company that created this search engine was bought out by a telecommunications holding, all developments were discontinued, and Aport quickly lost ground, yielding to its main competitors.
At the moment, Aport is an electronic trading platform, with a large base of firms and companies offering more than 8 million items of goods in 1400 categories.
Rambler
The team of the telecommunications company Stek decided to create an original Russian search engine back in 1994. By that time, Stack already had some experience with the Internet, servers and websites. Working with the Russian segment of the Internet, the company's specialists determined that foreign search engines practically do not perceive the Cyrillic alphabet and pages with several encodings, and they index Runet sites very poorly.
Rambler "in translation from English -" wanderer "," vagabond "," loitering man."
The core of the new search engine was written by programmer Dmitry Kryukov in just a few months. The work on the new car was financed by the Stack company, whose creator Sergey Lysakov actively helped Kryukov in his very difficult work. The name Rambler and the logo of the future search engine were also invented by Dmitry. The domain rambler.ru was registered on September 26, 1996, and on October 8, a search engine named Rambler was posted on the network by its creator. At that time, the new search engine indexed 100 thousand documents, which was a thoughtful and strategically important step that allowed Rambler for several years to become the undisputed leader of search in Runet.
