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HISTORY OF SEARCH ENGINES

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Google and other search engines are smarter than ever: they use machine learning to process and rank information and can understand natural human speech. But the Internet hasn't always been so easy to navigate! There was a time when you needed to know the exact wording of a website name in order to find it. The search results were riddled with spam. It can take several weeks for search engines to index new content.
Search engines have definitely changed! In this timeline, you will learn about the history and evolution of search engines from 1990 to the present day.

How search engines work

SEARCH INFORMATION

The custom query prompts the engines to return results that are ranked hierarchically using signals of trust and relevance.

WEB CRAWLING
Methodically and automatically browses the Internet.

INDEXING
Pages are analyzed by titles and specific fields. This is the fastest search form.

1990 year


Archie's
First Search Engine - It searched FTP sites to create an index of the downloads.
Due to limited space, only listings were available, not content for each site.

1991 The
World Wide Web Virtual Library (VLib)
Tim Berners-Lee created the virtual library.
The CERN web server hosted a list of web servers at the early age of the Internet.

1992
Veronica
The names and headers of the files to look for stored in the Gopher index systems

1993
Jughead
Also searched for the names and headers of the files in the Gopher index systems, but only one server was searched at a time.

Wanderer of the World Wide Web
Created by Matthew Gray; the bot counted active web servers and "measured the growth" of the Internet. The bot was soon updated to capture real URLs.
The database was called Wandex.
The bot accessed the same page hundreds of times a day and caused a delay. JumpStation's

Primitive Web
Search: Header and page title information with a simple linear search.
World Wide Web Worm: Indexed Headers and URLs (These two results are listed in the order in which they were found, no ranking).
RBSE Spider (had a rating system).
If the exact name did not match, it was very difficult to find anything.

1994 year


Infoseek
Webmasters could submit pages in real time.

EINet Galaxy Leverages
various web search functions effectively.
An unnecessary library due to the small size of the Internet

ALIWEB
Created by Martin Koster, it scanned the meta information and allowed the user to submit the pages they wanted to index along with a description.
No bots and no excessive bandwidth used
People didn't know how to submit their sites



Search Yahoo!
Created by David Philo and Jerry Yang, starting with a set of friendly web pages that include a hand-crafted description with each URL.
The increase in size influenced them to become searchable directories.
Communication sites are free to add, but have been expanded to include commercial sites. It's still available for $ 300 a year.
Long waiting time to turn on



WebCrawler
The first crawler to index entire pages, but was too popular to be used during the day.



Lycos A
catalog of 54,000 documents published.
Ranked Relevance Search and Prefix Matching and Word Affinity
By August 1994, they had identified 394,000 documents; 1.5 million by January 1995

1995


Looks smart
Competing with Yahoo! by increasing the factor of inclusion back and forth.



Arousal
Created by six Stanford University students.



AltaVista
Unlimited bandwidth (first time).
First to allow natural language queries.
Advanced search methods.
Add or remove your own URL within 24 hours.
Search tips and new features.

AOL buys WebCrawler
Netscape starts using Infoseek as default search

1996


Google Start: BackRub
Larry and Sergey began work on BackRub, a search engine that used backlinks to search.
It has ranked pages using citation notation, which means that any mention of a website on another site will count as a vote in favor of the said site.
The "credibility" or reliability of a website depends on the number of people associated with that site and how reliable those sites are.



Inctomi: HotBot
Hotbot is listed on Hotwire
Inktomi first offered a paid inclusion model, but it was not as effective as Overture's pay-per-click model.

Lycos found 60 million documents (more than any other search engine).



AskJeeves / Ask.com
Launches a natural language search engine in which editors tried to match search terms.
Powered by DirectHit, whose goal is to rank links by popularity. It is easy to send spam.
Uses clustering to organize sites by thematic popularity (local web communities)

1997
Excite buys WebCrawler

1998


MSN search
relied on Overture, Looksmart and Inktomi until Google proved its backlink model.



Google launches



Overture
Previously, Goto.com was the first company to successfully provide a pay-per-click placement search service.

1999
Excite bought by @@home for $ 6.5 billion



AllTheWeb
An elegant, advanced interface that was eventually introduced to Yahoo!

Google
search receives funding from Sequoia Capital as well as several other investors. AOL selects Google as its search partner.

2000
LookSmart buys Zeal non-profit catalog for $ 20 million





2001 Teoma engine released .
Excite's bankruptcy led Infospace to buy it for $ 10 million.
AskJeeves buys Teoma to replace DirectHit.
Inktomi is at risk of accidentally providing public access to its database of spam sites (over a million).


2002
Yahoo! starts working on its search engine again, starting to get other search directories. Prior to that, they had outsourced their search services.
LookSmart is turning into a pay-per-click provider, destroying reliability.
LookSmart buys WiseNut.


2003
Overture plans to acquire AltaVista for $ 80 million in shares and $ 60 million in cash.
AllTheWeb acquired by Overture for $ 70 million
Inktomi bought out Yahoo! for $ 235 million,
LookSmart takes a stab of rejection when Microsoft dumps it and loses over 65% of its annual revenue.
Yahoo! buys Overture for $ 1.63 billion
Google is releasing its first officially named Boston update, announced at SES Boston.


2004
MSN launches preliminary version of new
Lycos search engine sold to Daum Communications, the second largest internet portal in Korea.

2005
MSN divested of Yahoo! Organic results with proprietary technology in January 2005
IAC (owner of ticketmaster.com, match.com) buys Ask Jeeves for $ 1.85 billion, changes its name to Ask.com and divested of Teoma.
The emergence of "nofollow": Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! removes spam blogs all over the place with nofollow links




Click
Overture owner Bill Gross launches the Snap search engine, which shows search volumes, revenue, and advertisers.
It turned out to be too complicated, not simplistic enough for the average web surfer.

2006
MSN divested of Yahoo!
LookSmart closes Zeal
Microsoft announces the launch of Live Search


2007.
Google is changing search results forever with "universal search" - the integration of simple, 10-listing search results with features such as news, videos, images, local content and more.

2008
Google releases "Google Suggest" - users receive drop-down lists of suggested topics related to their queries.



Cuil
Managed and developed by former Google employees, it has indexed 127 billion web pages as of February 2009.

2009 r.


Bing
Rebranding MSN / Live Search.
Built-in search suggestions for related searches right in the result set.

2010
Caffeine
Google's web indexing engine delivers 50% more recent search results.

Google Live Search
Users receive real-time search results as they type their queries.

2011 r.


Schema
To support and promote schemas for more structured internet data, Google, Yahoo !, and Microsoft have teamed up to create Schema.org.



Panda
Panda marks a significant change in Google's ranking algorithm. In particular, it will have a negative impact on content farms and scraping sites. Affected 12% of Google search results in the US.

2012 r.


Penguin
Google's Penguin update continues to keep SEO professionals on their toes. First of all, sites are punished: those who buy links or receive them through link networks designed to increase search rankings.

Bing is launching a social sidebar. Users see search results through the lens of their social networks.

2013


Hummingbird
The first search algorithm with the ability to analyze the purpose of a query, not just the language itself.

2014
Yahoo! signs an agreement to provide services for the default search engine Mozilla Firefox in the United States.
Dove - Google update to provide more useful, relevant and accurate local search results.
Google prioritizes website security by calling for "HTTPS everywhere" and starting to use HTTPS as a ranking signal.


2015
Mobilegeddon - Google is releasing an update to improve the usability of mobile pages in mobile search results.
Bing Releases Its Own Mobile Optimized Algorithm Update
RankBrain - Google reports that machine learning has been playing an important role in its ranking algorithm for several months now.


2016
Google releases (unofficially named) "Possum" - Local Search Results Diverse; sites that send spam are punished
"Penguin" operates in real time and becomes part of the main Google ranking algorithm.

2017
“Google begins to punish sites with aggressive interstitial ads and pop-ups that interfere with mobile users.
Google's search algorithm updates informally called "Fred" punishes sites with poor quality backlinks, as well as sites that prioritize monetization over user experience

History of search engines

Modern search engines are incredible - sophisticated algorithms allow search engines to process your search query and return results that are usually fairly accurate, giving you valuable pieces of information among a vast array of information data.
As our infographic "The History of Internet Search Engines" shows, search engines have come a long way since their first prototypes. From improvements to search engine crawlers and web classification and indexing, to the introduction of new protocols such as robots.txt so that webmasters can control web page crawling, to the introduction of voice search, search engine development has culminated in several search technologies developed from different search engines. systems. Alta Vista was the first search engine to process queries in natural language; Lycos started well with a system for categorizing relevance signals, matching keywords with prefixes, and word proximity; and Ask Jeeves introduced the ability to use human editors to match users' actual searches.

How do search engines work?
First of all, let's ask, what is a search engine ? A search engine is a program that searches for sites on the Internet for keywords. A search engine takes your keyword and returns Search Engine Result Pages (SERPs) with a list of sites it deems relevant or related to your keyword in search.
The goal of many sites is to hit the # 1 search results for the most popular keywords related to their business. A site's keyword ranking is very important because the higher a site's search rankings, the more people will see it.
SEO or Search Engine Optimization is a technique used to increase the likelihood of getting a first page ranking through techniques such as link building, SEO heading tags, content optimization, meta descriptions, and keyword research.
Google search engines and other major search engines such as Bing and Yahoo use large numbers of computers to search large amounts of data on the Internet.
Web search engines catalog the World Wide Web using a spider or crawler . These crawler robots were created to index content; they scan and evaluate the content of website pages and information archives on the web.

Algorithms and determination of the best search engines
Different search engines on the Internet use different algorithms to determine which web pages are most relevant for a specific search engine keyword and which web pages should appear at the top of the search engine results page.
Relevance is the key to search engines on the Internet - users naturally prefer the search engine that will give them the best and most relevant results .
Search engines are often quite careful with their search algorithms as their unique algorithm tries to generate the most relevant results. The best search engines and, as a result, the most popular search engines are the most relevant.

History of the Search Engine
The history of the search engine began in 1990 with Archie, an FTP site that hosts an index of downloadable directory listings. Search engines continued to be primitive directory listings until search engines evolved to crawl and index websites, eventually creating algorithms to optimize relevance.
Yahoo started out as just a list of favorite websites, but has grown large enough over time to become a searchable index directory. In fact, their search services were outsourced until 2002 when they actually started working on their search engine.

History of the Google Search Engine Google's
unique and improving algorithm has made it one of thethe most popular search engines of all time. Other search engines still struggle to match Google's relevance algorithm by examining a range of factors such as social media, inbound links, fresh content, and more.
As the aforementioned infographic shows, Google entered the search engine scene in 1996. Google was unique because it ranked pages according to a citation notation where mentioning one site on another site was a vote for that site.
Google has also started evaluating sites by authority . The credibility or credibility of a website was determined by how many other websites linked to it, and how reliable those linking to external sites were.
The history of Google search can be seen by looking at the changes taking place on the Google homepage over the years. It is remarkable to see how simple and primitive the now most popular search engine was once.

The history of the Google search engine: a look into the past



Image of the original home page of the Google search engine from 1997 when Google was part of stanford.edu.



Google search engine home page in 2005



Google's current view.

List of Alternative Search Engines
While Google is widely regarded as the most popular search engine, there are also a number of alternative search engines that you can use.
There are different search engines for unique needs. For example, you might want a search engine to help you find blogs specifically, or perhaps you want kid-friendly search engines that only return kid-friendly sites.

Here is a list of search engines with specific interests:
BlogSearchEngine is a great blog search engine
Indeed and Monster is a
SongMeanings search engine andLyricsMode - Search engines for lyrics.

These free search engines make it easy to find information that suits your unique needs.

Deep Web Search Engines
In addition to the standard search engines, there are also deep search engines .
The deep web refers to areas of the Internet that do not lend themselves to normal indexing and therefore cannot be easily found and indexed by search robots. These alternative search engines specialize in this data that is not easy to find.

Yippy is a popular deep web search engine especially useful for niches and little-known interests.
Deep dyveis a search engine in a deep network of scientific articles and journals.

Top 10 Search Engines
Below is a list of our top 10 search engines on the Internet . While choosing the “best” search engine depends on your unique desires and needs, below is a list of popular search engines, some of which are more unique than others.
Google offers everything from image searches to map searches, news searches, and more. With impressive keyword relevance and ever-improving search algorithms, it's easy to see why Google is still the reigning champion.
Bing- The Microsoft-based search engine prides itself on being a “decision-making engine,” offering search options in the side column and providing additional search options.
Yahoo - Although Yahoo has suffered lately, it is still a classic and popular search engine.
Ask is a clean layout and easy grouping of results.
AOL Search - AOL is still used primarily by people who still use AOL. They are out there somewhere.
DogPile - The once Google alternative is back and is a great alternative to the larger search engines.
Duck Duck Go - Doesn't track search history and avoids spam sites.

Internet Archive- This search engine allows users to travel back in time to see how web pages have looked in years past. A very interesting search engine to play with.
 
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