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Meet Alan Emtage, the Black Technologist Who Invented ARCHIE, the First Internet Search Engine

8 mins | Feb 7, 2018

Googling has profoundly changed the way that we access information. But Alexandra Samuel, writing in JSTOR Daily, reveals how it wasn’t Google’s founders who invented the first search engine, it was a Barbadian called Alan Emtage.

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