Search engine technologies were developed using a catalog structure of web sites that were voluntarily registered . These were often manually updated. In 1993 the development of "web robot" technology enabled the automatic generation of a search index called Wandex. Full text search engines, based on "web robot" technologies, came later. One of the better known was Lycos, a search engine that was launched in 1994. Search engines then began appearing in rapid succession. These included Magellan, Excite and Infoseek to Northern Light and AltaVista (my favorite for a long time:). Yahoo! came along around the same time, but it was more a catalog with an overview over web sites. It didn't scan a web site's full content searching for keywords entered in the search field.
Google gained popularity after the year 2000. Google was developed by Sergey Brin and Larry Page in 1997. The search engine's popularity was due to PageRank - a technology that produced better search results. PageRank is named after Google founder, Larry Page. Today Google is the leader in search engine offerings. We can now search the web for text, images, maps, translations etc. In addition Google has a host of products to support businesses who advertise using Google AdWords. These include site visitor analysis, response times, web traffic analysis etc.
The goal of all search engines is to find and organize distributed data found on the Internet. Before search engines were developed, the Internet was a collection of File Transfer Protocol (FTP) sites in which users would navigate to find specific shared files. As the central list of web servers joining the Internet grew, and the World Wide Web became the interface of choice for accessing the Internet, the need for finding and organizing the distributed data files on FTP web servers grew. Search engines began due to this need to more easily navigate the web servers and files on the Internet.
Google gained popularity after the year 2000. Google was developed by Sergey Brin and Larry Page in 1997. The search engine's popularity was due to PageRank - a technology that produced better search results. PageRank is named after Google founder, Larry Page. Today Google is the leader in search engine offerings. We can now search the web for text, images, maps, translations etc. In addition Google has a host of products to support businesses who advertise using Google AdWords. These include site visitor analysis, response times, web traffic analysis etc.
The goal of all search engines is to find and organize distributed data found on the Internet. Before search engines were developed, the Internet was a collection of File Transfer Protocol (FTP) sites in which users would navigate to find specific shared files. As the central list of web servers joining the Internet grew, and the World Wide Web became the interface of choice for accessing the Internet, the need for finding and organizing the distributed data files on FTP web servers grew. Search engines began due to this need to more easily navigate the web servers and files on the Internet.
