Wednesday, December 3, 2008

History Of Search Engines

History :
Before HTTP protocol was invented the internet was just a huge network consisting of FTP servers, and internet is used as a means of file exchange. Before websites existed the first search engines ran via FTP and similar protocols. Internet acquired its actual shape only after Tim Burners-Lee had created HTTP protocol, we got the World Wide Web, and the Internet acquired its actual shape.


Search Engines Today :
Modern web searchers are divided into two main groups:

Search engines.
Directories.


Search Engines automatically 'crawl' web pages by following hyperlinks and store copies of them in an index, so that they can generate a list of resources according to user’s requests.
Directories are compiled according to categories by humans who are site owners or directory editors.

The top-13 search engines listed Below cover about 90 percent of all online searches performed on the Internet. Those search engines are:

www.Google.com
www.Yahoo.com
www.MSN Search.com
www.AOL Search.com
www.AltaVista.com
www.Lycos.com
www.Netscape.com
www.HotBot.com
Ask Jeeves/Teoma
www.AllTheWeb.com
www.Wisenut.com
www.iWon.com

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