Which web search engine was created by Steve Kirsch in 1994?

The web search engine created by Steve Kirsch was Infoseek.

Steve Kirsch founded Infoseek, an early commercial web search engine that became one of the recognizable names of the 1990s internet. Infoseek helped users locate pages on the rapidly expanding World Wide Web, when search services were competing to build workable indexes before Google became dominant.

Some historical references date Kirsch’s founding of Infoseek to 1993, while this question gives 1994; that date variation does not change the canonical answer. Infoseek was later acquired by The Walt Disney Company in 1999 and became associated with Disney’s online properties, including Go.com. It is easy to confuse it with Lycos, HotBot, or Magellan because all were prominent names in the same early search era, but those services had different founders and corporate histories.

Kirsch is also known for co-founding Frame Technology and for independently helping invent an early optical mouse, but those achievements are separate from Infoseek.