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The History Of Search Engines
However, life was not always as easy in the beginning of the early days of the internet. The first search engine, or model of what would become one, was called Archie. It was the word archive without the letter ‘V’. Archie was an FTP hosted search engine which people could log into and view a list of downloadable directory listings, however only the listings were available this way due to issues with space. 1991 saw the emergence of Veronica and Jughead. This was a companion search engine to Archie which stored file names in a Gopher style index. 1992 saw an advancement with VLib. Tim Berners-Lee set up a virtual library on a CERN web server which hosted a list of usable web servers. By 1993 there was a huge boom in search engine design. Six Stanford undergraduates created Excite in February of 1993. This was followed in June of ’93 with Matthew Gray’s World Wide Wanderer. This was an early model of what is used today, as this web bot wandered many websites at a time, sometimes so many that it cause a lag in the engine’s response time. October of 1993 saw Aliweb which was an utter failure because no-one was able to find instructions for submitting their websites. Primitive Web Search came around in December of 1993, this was the first search engine to include information about each website which came up as a search result. Primitive also had a rating system recording which sites were visited by the most people online. 1994 would see another boom with such search tools as InfoSeek, AltaVista, the Web Crawler and Lycos. While some of these were superb and fantastic engines no-one could be prepared for what was to come. April of 1994 saw the emergence of Yahoo! Search. The Yahoo Web directory was the most comprehensive online at the time. Created by David Fib, Yahoo started as a collection of favorable WebPages online with a manmade description and URL title. It wouldn’t be until 2002 that Yahoo would begin work on their actual search engine. There have been many other notes-worthy search engines from then till now. However the best and most valuable of them all started in 1996 and finally launched in 1998 - Google. Google would over time dominate online search by acquiring other smaller engines and even aligning themselves with AOL. By 2003, Google was the most widely used online search tool who were also selling ad space for related search results. Even today new and improved smaller search engines go live online. About one new major engine will go live each year. However to this day Google shadows them all. Article Directory: http://www.articledashboard.com Mark Gregory is writing on behalf of Marketing By Web; an online marketing company specialising in adwords google management and adwords company |
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