Getting Acquainted with Search Engines..

Tell me what you do when you need to find a small bit of information, that may be a description , a product, or anything you are looking for . Exactly you go to your favorite search engine, enter the keyword ( anything you are looking for), And there you go. Millions of results will pop up at screen with just a single click, like a magic. But this was not possible in earlier 80's when search engines were not there . All Of you must be thinking at this point . that " if there were no search engine's existence at that time, then how we used to search information ? And if i say that there were no interconnected sites or internet at that time too , then.? World wide web was invented by Sir Tim Berners Lee - then set up 1st website in 1991, made available to all in 1993. Needless to say his creation was gigantic . Dr. Vinton G. Cerf was the father of internet who has also worked with the biggest search engine today (Google) . He shared his title with Robert Kahn. At that time what was called the internet was actually a collection of FTP Files ( File Transfer Protocol) . Sites that are used for uploading and downloading of files. To find the exact information user has to go through every file very precisely. Although there were shortcuts but if you know exact user with exact file address only then you can take deep breath. This whole process will test your patience in searching for files . But Student at Mcgill University at Montreal was engaged in building a better way of searching files. It was Allan Emtage who created the first search tool used on internet in 1990. The task was to index the files on internet by the tool called Archie. Archie wasn’t actually a search engine like those that you use today, but at the time it was a program many Internet users were happy to have. Again in 1991 Mark McCahill, a student from University of Minnesota, realized 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 the plain-text documents that later became the first web sites on the public Internet. later Archie was combine with Gopher which used to search the files indexed by Gopher. Both the index was proved to be a boon for user blessing users with indexing and searching by keyword . These invention changed the image of search engines . the first search engine was developed by Mathew Gray ., and it was known as wandex. the first program to search and index pages . This technology was first program to crawl web and later this technology becomes the base of many search engines today. From 1993 to 1998 major familiar search engines of 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