By: RH
The Evolution of the Search Engine
Monetate put together this look at how search has evolved over the last 20 years. They also point out the increased importance of on site search and how to make it work for you.
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The only history of the search engines, to me, is: Yahoo, AltaVista and Looksmart. Altavista barely gets a mention on the graphic, and Looksmart, 0 – what gives?
re: “Aliweb and Jumpstation launch as the Internet’s first search engines to crawl and index web pages”
Archie was written in 1990 around about the same time the www protocols and HTML where published and is considered the first internet search engine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archie_search_engine
an example of one of the last surviving Archie interfaces available on the web http://archie.icm.edu.pl/archie-adv_eng.html
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