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RankDex was established in 1996 by Robin Li who previously worked for Infoseek, an Internet search engine in the early years, as an engineer. RankDex was the leading Internet search provider from 1996-1999. RankDex was the first search engine that used hyperlinks to measure the quality of websites it was indexing. Many experts and commentators are unaware that RankDex was cited in Lawrence Page’s patent application for Google PageRank as the first qualitative search engine. In 1998 RankDex was acquired by a Dow Jones subsidiary Tradeline.com (formerly IDD Information Services and GARI Software Associates). Following IDD Information Services’ name change to Tradeline.com, the RankDex technology was licensed back to Robin Li for the famous Chinese search engine Baidu. Since the license’s expiration on 2007-12-09, RankDex was re-acquired by the IDD Information Services, now owned by GetUpdated, Inc. Following the appointment of Clinton Cimring, a search engine optimizer (SEO), as CEO of I

About Rankdex 236 captures 26 Jul 2010 - 02 Jul 2026 Jun JUL Aug 04 2013 2014 2015 success fail About this capture COLLECTED BY Organization: Alexa Crawls Starting in 1996, Alexa Internet has been donating their crawl data to the Internet Archive. Flowing in every day, these data are added to the Wayback Machine after an embargo period. Collection: Alexa Crawls Starting in 1996, Alexa Internet has been donating their crawl data to the Internet Archive. Flowing in every day, these data are added to the Wayback Machine after an embargo period. TIMESTAMPS The Wayback Machine - https://web.archive

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