history of search engines

Todays many of us got addicted to search engines .Our daily  internet routine starts by loading a search engine page and proceed from there. They have become very essential in the present digital age.  Many search engines evolved with time .I would like to shed some light on the history of search engines.
 Search Engine Journal shares this interesting timeline picture displaying the history on search engines.
Archie was the world's first search engine to be built by Alan Emtage, a student at McGill University in Montreal. The original intent of the name was "archives," but it was shortened to Archie.The interface of Archie was simple.Considered as grandfather of all search engines as it is Internet’s first indexer. Before this there was no way people could discover useful websites or search for some content. Information used to flow in form of websites names  
Veronica & Jughead:Soon  Archie became so famous, it became a synonym of the word  computer .

It had such popularity that the University of Nevada System Computing Services group

developed Veronica. Veronica served the same purpose as Archie, but it worked

on plain text files. Soon another user interface name Jughead appeared with the

same purpose as Veronica, both of these were used for files sent via Gopher, which

 was created as an Archie alternative by Mark McCahill at the University of Minnesota in 1991.

File Transfer Protocol: File Transfer Protocol (FTP)  came into existence then which  helped people to share data.If you had a file you wanted to share you would set up an FTP server and upload the file. The people who are interested downloaded the file using FTP client. 

In 1993  World Wide Web Wanderer, the first bot to capture actual URL’s and build a database named Wandex for search engines.A bot is a computer program that carries out tasks for other programs or users on the Internet .

In 1993 oct Martijin koster created ALIWEB  which means Archie-like indexing of the  web . ALIWEB crawled meta information and allowed users to submit their pages they wanted indexed with their own page description.Hence it didnot used BOTS to collect information.But the downside of this is many people dont know how to submit their webpages.
In the same year three full fledged  search engines supported by bots had surfaced on the web: JumpStation, the World Wide Web Worm, and the Repository-Based Software Engineering (RBSE) spider. JumpStation gathered info about the title and header from Web pages and retrieved these using a simple linear search. As the web grew, JumpStation slowed to a stop. The WWW Worm indexed titles and URL's. The problem with JumpStation and the World Wide Web Worm is that they listed results in the order that they found them, and provided no discrimination. RSBE spider did implement a ranking system.

In 1994  YAHOO! Created by Stanford University students Jerry Wang and David Filo.

 YAHOO was abbreviated for YET ANOTHER  HIERARCHIAL OFFICIOUS ORACLE.

 It was originally a directory of interesting sites and bookmark list.In the same

year LYCOS . This became very famous in 1990's .In October 1994, Lycos ranked first

 on Netscape's list of search engines by finding the most hits on the word ‘surf.’.

In 1995 – Excite,AltaVista and AskJeeves were developed.

AltaVista brought many important features to the web . It was  the first to allow

natural language queries, advanced searching techniques and they allowed users to

 add or delete their own URL within 24 hours. They even allowed inbound link checking.

 AltaVista also provided numerous search tips and advanced search features.Ask

Jeeves was launched as a natural language search engine. Ask Jeeves used human

 editors to try to match search queries.
 1997 – BackRub got renamed to GOOGLE. They got the name from the word Googol, which is a mathematical term for the number represented by numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros.
1998 – MSN Search launched with the help of Inktomi search engine.Again in 1998 – GoTo.com started advertising on its search page. An advertiser has to bid for top placements in search results and when user clicks on them, advertisers pay to GoTo.com.

2000 – Yahoo started to use Google Search algo in its result page.
2003 – Yahoo acquired Intomi, Goto, Altavista and AllTheWeb to power up its search capacities.
2004 - Yahoo started to use its own search engine based on acquired technologies.
2006 – MSN Search got renamed to Windows Live Search.
2009 – Live Search got renovated as Bing with all new search technology. Bing represented the sound made during “moment of discovery and decision making”
2010 – Still yet to  come .