History of Search Engines

In 1991, a student named Mark Mc Cahill at the University of Minnesota decided that if you could search for files on the internet then surely you could also search plain text for specific references in the files. Because no such application existed, he created Gopher, a program that indexed in plain-text documents that later became the first web sites on the public internet.
From there search as you know it began to mature. The first real search engine in the form that we know search engines today, didn’t come into being until 1993. It was developed by Matthew Grayand it was called Wandex. Wandex was the first program to both index and search index of pages on the web. This technology was the first program to crawl the web and later became the basis for all search crawlers. From there search engines took on a life of their own. Since 1993 to 1998, the major search engines that you are probably familiar with today were created:
· Excite – 1993
· Yahoo – 1994
· Web Crawler – 1994
· Lycos – 1994
· InfoSeek – 1995
· AltaVista – 1995
· Inktomi – 1996
· Ask Jeeves -1997
· Google – 1997
· MSN Search - 1998
Today, search engines are sophisticated programs, many of which allow you to search all manner of files and documents using the same words and phrases you would use in everyday conversations. It’s hard to believe that the concept of a search engine is just over 20 years back. Especially considering what you can use to find these days!

But my question is why Google only popular in world? why other search engines goes down?

 

Google is the "most" popular because they spent a lot of time engineering their search to come up with the most accurate results.

There are newcomers such as duckduckgo.com and many of the old timers are updating to compete with Google.

 

bu google consist of useage of 75.8% in 2012 ans yahoo 14.2% and ask.com 4.5% and other search engine etc

 

thanks for the information. but is duckduckgo.com is really a competitor of google?

 

DuckDuckgo is a relatively new search engine, privately owned and is still in development. It's one to watch right now.

 

thanks for the reply sir.

 

thank you for Google history

 

During the early development of the web, there was a list of webservers edited by Tim Berners-Lee and hosted on the CERN webserver. One historical snapshot from 1992 remains.[1] As more webservers went online the central list could not keep up. On the NCSA site new servers were announced under the title "What's New!"[2]
The very first tool used for searching on the Internet was Archie.[3] 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. Veronica (Very Easy Rodent-Oriented Net-wide Index to Computerized Archives) provided a keyword search of most Gopher menu titles in the entire Gopher listings. Jughead (Jonzy's Universal Gopher Hierarchy Excavation And Display) was a tool for obtaining menu information from specific Gopher servers. While the name of the search engine "Archie" was not a reference to the Archie comic book series, "Veronica" and "Jughead" are characters in the series, thus referencing their predecessor.
In the summer of 1993, no search engine existed yet for the web, though numerous specialized catalogues were maintained by hand. Oscar Nierstrasz at the University of Geneva wrote a series of Perl scripts that would periodically mirror these pages and rewrite them into a standard format which formed the basis for W3Catalog, the web's first primitive search engine, released on September 2, 1993.[4]
In June 1993, Matthew Gray, then at MIT, produced what was probably the first web robot, the Perl-based World Wide Web Wanderer, and used it to generate an index called 'Wandex'. The purpose of the Wanderer was to measure the size of the World Wide Web, which it did until late 1995. The web's second search engine Aliweb appeared in November 1993. Aliweb did not use a web robot, but instead depended on being notified by website administrators of the existence at each site of an index file in a particular format.
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I didn't know which is fist search lunched, i found here information about that.

 

Sorry, but, I wish the founder would have spent a little time coming up with a better name- I don't care how relevant the searches are with it- I won't use it for the simple fact that the name and logo are too lame.

 

lol,
com on Chas, what do you have against ducks?

 

If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck...

 

I like the form duckduckgo.com, but most of its components are still under development. Let's see how would it look like after development completion.

 

Thank you for know about the history

 

I think every who is in the field of SEO must be aware about the history of it. Thanks for sharing it.

 

Thanks for providing information about search engine. Really this is useful for every person......