Magellan (search engine)

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Magellan was a search engine based on a manually maintained web catalog. The publisher was the McKinley Group .

Magellan's basis was the Internet directory New Riders' official Internet yellow pages published in 1994 as a book . In September 1995 the directory was published on the Internet with detailed evaluations of almost 30,000 websites and continuously updated. The human-rated approach to websites made Magellan one of the most popular search engines of the early 1990s.

A planned IPO of the McKinley Group failed in 1996, so the owners sold Magellan for 18 million US dollars on August 30, 1996 to Excite .

The approach of manually rating websites proved impractical with the skyrocketing number of new listings, so Magellan was discontinued in April 2001.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michelle V. Rafter: Adrift on the Net - McKinley Group's Struggle Illustrates Industry's Volatility . Ed .: Los Angeles Times. June 27, 1996 ( LA Times ).
  2. ↑ Smart Computing (Ed.): Smart Computing Encyclopedia . 2002 ( Smart Computing ).