Nine unknown facts about search engines

We believe the search engines for granted. They exist because there must. Without them, we find the correct and adequate information to the many millions of Web pages would have been almost impossible task.

Here are nine, probably unknown to you the facts about search engines.

a. Invented in 1936?.

The idea, which led eventually to the invention of hypertext, and the argument about the need to develop a system quickly extract data from such stored information (the equivalent of today's search engines ) were published in 1945 an American engineer and science administrator Vannevar Bush (Vannevar Bush). His essay, ' How could we think' was probably written in 1936. Including the idea of memory extender devices contain original ideas, which, after all, embodied in the Internet.

2. The Magic Extractor automatic text.

The first real search engine was created in 1960 by Gerard Salton (Gerard Salton). He and his group at Cornell University have developed a ' ingenious system of information retrieval ' (SMART information retrieval system). SMART - an acronym for Salton-s Magic Automatic Retriever of Text, that is, ' Magic Extractor automatic text.
Salton '. Gerard Salton is considered the father of modern search technology.

3. First on the Internet.

The first search engine on the internet called Archie. It was designed to index FTP archives. The name of Archie - Archive is just not the letter 'v'.

4. The first Web search.

The first search engine for web sites called Wandex:):):) ( a smile from the translator ). It was released in 1993 and used the code generated by the first web indexer World Wide Web Wanderer, which was written in Perl by Matthew Gray (Matthew Gray) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Matthew Gray is now working on Google.

5. Which is especially nothing to do.

In December 1993 there were 623 Internet web site, so that the work in the first search engines were smaller than today's more than 162 million websites.

6. The first full-text search.

The first search engine that indexed the entire page was WebCrawler. Launched in 1994, WebCrawler was the first system to offer full-text search, like today's search engines. Prior to that search engines index only the page titles and meta information from the tags. Today WebCrawler Metasearch into a system that integrates information from Google, Yahoo, Live and other search engines.

7. ProtoGugl.

Larry Page and Sergey Brin began working on the technology, then turned to Google, in 1996. The original name of the project - BackRub.

8. Yahoo and Microsoft - a belated entry into the game.

Yahoo and Microsoft did not have its own search technology to the 2004. Yahoo Search used data from AltaVista and Inktomi, and even some time - Google. MSN Search ( now Live Search) took a similar path, although not used the services of Google. Its own search technology Microsoft launched only in 2005 (Beta appeared in 2004).

9. The Big Three - not quite so, how do you think.

Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are usually referred to as the big search three, but this is incorrect, in any case, if you will be based on the total number of searches around the world. Chinese search engine Baidu ahead of Microsoft Live Search in the number of search queries. Thus, the big three - it's Google, Yahoo and Baidu.

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