JumpStation
Jumpstation was one of the first web search engines. It started indexing on Sunday 12th December 1993[1] and was announced on the Mosaic "What's New" webpage on 21st December 1993.[2] It was hosted at the University of Stirling in Scotland.
It was written by Jonathon Fletcher[3][4], who graduated from the University with a first class honours degree in Computing Science in the summer of 1992. He was subsequently employed there as a systems administrator. Jumpstation's development and use discontinued when he left the University in 1994. At this point the database had 275,000 entries spanning 1500 servers.[5]
The search engine used document titles and headings to index the web pages found using a simple linear search, and did not provide any ranking of results.[5][6] In that it used an index solely built by a web robot, searched this index using keyword queries entered by the user on a WWW form, and presented its results in the form of a list of URLs that matched those keywords, it took the same basic form as Google.
Jumpstation was nominated for a "Best Of The Web" award in 1994.[7].