<Tr> <Td> 1997 </Td> <Td> September 15 </Td> <Td> New web search engine </Td> <Td> The domain Google.com is registered . Soon, Google Search is available to the public from this domain (around 1998). </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 1997 </Td> <Td> September 23 </Td> <Td> New web search engine (non-English) </Td> <Td> Arkady Volozh and Ilya Segalovich launch their Russian web search engine yandex.ru and publicly present it at the Softool exhibition in Moscow . The initial development is by Comptek; Yandex would become a separate company in 2000 . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 1998 </Td> <Td> June 5 </Td> <Td> New web directory </Td> <Td> Gnuhoo, a web directory project by Rich Skrenta and Bob Truel, both employees of Sun Microsystems, launches . It would later be renamed the Open Directory Project . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 1999 </Td> <Td> May </Td> <Td> New web search engine </Td> <Td> AlltheWeb, based on the Ph. D. thesis of Tor Egge at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, titled FTP Search, launches . The engine is launched by Egge's company Fast Search & Transfer, established on July 16, 1997 . </Td> </Tr>

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