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Infographic: Search Engine History by Infographiclabs
The very first tool used for searching on the Internet was Archie.The name stands for "archive" without the "v". It was created in 1990 by Alan Emtage, Bill Heelan and J. Peter Deutsch, computer science students at McGill University in Montreal. The program downloaded the directory listings of all the files located on public anonymous FTP (File Transfer Protocol) sites, creating a searchable database of file names; however, Archie did not index the contents of these sites since the amount of data was so limited it could be readily searched manually.
The rise of Gopher (created in 1991 by Mark McCahill at the University of Minnesota) led to two new search programs, Veronica and Jughead. Like Archie, they searched the file names and titles stored in Gopher index systems.One of the first "full text" crawler-based search engines was WebCrawler, which came out in 1994. Also in 1994, Lycos (which started at Carnegie Mellon University) was launched and became a major commercial endeavor.
Soon after, many search engines appeared and vied for popularity. These included Magellan, Excite, Infoseek, Inktomi, Northern Light, and AltaVista. Yahoo! was among the most popular ways for people to find web pages of interest, but its search function operated on its web directory, rather than full-text copies of web pages.
Around 2000, the Google search engine rose to prominence and the rest as they say is History
2 comments:
Very intriguing. It looks like Google came in late to the party, but somehow, its advanced algorithms and PageRank factor propelled it to the top of the search engine industry.
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I'm surprised there are so many search engines out there that I never even hear about. ChaCha, Picollator, and Viewzi all seem pretty innovative, but they need to get the word out.
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