The 1993 search engine created by Jonathon Fletcher at the University of Stirling was JumpStation.
JumpStation began indexing the web on December 12, 1993, and was announced on the Mosaic “What's New” page nine days later. Fletcher wrote it while associated with the University of Stirling in Scotland, where the system was hosted. It is often described as the first World Wide Web search engine to combine a robot-built index, a keyword search form, and a results list in a way recognizably similar to modern search engines.
JumpStation indexed document titles and headings discovered by a web robot. Its search system used a simple linear search and did not rank results, so it was much less sophisticated than later engines. Even so, its basic structure was an important step toward automated web search.
Development ended after Fletcher left the university in late 1994. By then, the database contained about 275,000 entries from roughly 1,500 servers. JumpStation is commonly confused with WebCrawler, Infoseek, and W3Catalog, but those were separate early-search projects.