History of Search Engines

This article may not be of much use to you. But given that most Indonesian people's heads are attached to the pattern of learning in schools, where all things must begin by knowing the "origin", I take the time to study and write a little about the history of search engines. Frankly, after 8 years of SEO wrestle, I also just found out about this now.

What do we do if we need to find sesuati on the internet? Usually we go into one search engine, type the word or phrase that we consider emwakili what we're looking for, press a button, review the search results list, then visit one that we consider most relevant by following the link on the search results list. We now get to enjoy the fruits of human creativity in creating technology. What did the people before the sophisticated technology now found?

At the beginning, the Internet is not as perfect as we see today. Even a network that connects a website with other websites - selerti we know it today in the form of links - well not exist. Internet was originally a collection of servers used for data storage, where people must do to save the file upload and download data to access the data file is already saved. To find a specific file, one must browse through a list of files. If you are already familiar with computers in the days of DOS, you can compare it to look for a file on the diskette by using the DIR command. We're a little lucky if you know the directory structure and know the name of the file is searched. With a process like this, search for files in intermet is a very exhausting job and requires patience.

In 1990, Nature Emtage, a student at McGill University in Canada created the first tool to facilitate data searches on the internet. Archie, the name of his findings, is a form of an index of files that are on the internet. Archie is not a search engine as we see now, but nevertheless quite popular in its time. In prisipinya, Archie was the index - table of contents - of all files that can be accessed by the public on a particular computer network. The index is then fed into a database to facilitate the search. Although not as advanced search engines of today who have the ability to analyze the structure of language "man" (so remember Tukul), in his time Archie is considered a great tool and in doing his job, mengyediakan index files in a computer network system to facilitate the search.

In 1991, another student named Mark McCahill from the University of Minesotta create the Gopher, who has the ability to search through a text file that is in the file, without needing to know the name of the file and place the directory structure stored. Veronica (Very Easy Rodent-Oriented Net-wide Index to Computerized Archives) and Jughead (Jonzy's Universal Gopher Hierarchy Excavation and Display) was created to allow text-based search on the Gopher Index System.

Wandex is the first search engine in the form as we see today, was created in 1993 by Matthew Gray. Wandex is the first program to do both things, compiling indexes and conduct searches in the index. This technology is the first to explore the Internet network.

Since then the development of commercial search engines started. In the span of time from 1993 to 1998 search engines popping up that we know today are:
Excite - 1993
Yahoo! - 1994
WebCrawler - 1994
Lycos - 1994
Infoseek - 1995
AltaVista - 1995
Inktomi - 1996
AskJeeves - 1997
Google - 1997
MSN Search - 1998

Today search engines have perfection technology that allows searches by using words or phrases as we use in everyday conversations. The development is very impressive for a new technology known in the past 15 years alone.