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The Archie Search Engine is the internet’s first indexer and is therefore considered as “the grandfather of all search engines.” It was invented by Alan Emtage, a computer science student from Barbados studying at McGill University. Before Archie was invented, the only way people could fins out the existence of and FTP (file transfer protocol) server was by word of mouth or if they were sent an email telling them where to find the information.
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With the help of Robert Cailiau, Berners-Lee writes the first world wide web server. It goes online world-wide via the Internet network in the summer of 1991
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Created by Martin Koster, Aliweb is the first search engine of the World Wide Web. People were required to submit their sites to Aliweb’s database to be found and sine few people did this, Aliweb did not gain much popularity.
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Created By Dr. Michael Loren Mauldin
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Yahoo! created by Stanford University students Jerry Wang and David Filo in a campus trailer. Yahoo was originally an Internet bookmark list and directory of interesting sites.
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Created by Louis Monier/Michael Burrows
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Created by Garrett Gruener/David Warthen
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Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Stanford computer science grad students, begin collaborating on a search engine called BackRub. this project will revolutionize web searching by counting a site’s links and ranking it accordingly
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In 1997, Larry and Sergey rename BackRub, Google. They got the name from the word “googol” which is a mathematical term for the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros. This reflects their mission to organize a seemingly infinite amount of information on the web.
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MSN Search first launched in the third quarter of 1998 and used search results from Inktomi. The engine was updated and renamed to Windows Live Search in 2006. Starting in 2008 pieces of Live Search were discontinued one by one until the brand was reborn as Bing.
