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Search Engine
Using a word or phrase to find information on any subject in the Internet is known as a search engine.
Of course, search engines are not only reserved for the World Wide Web.
Offices often use enterprise search engines to look for information on their intranets.
You may have a personal search engine to look stuff up in your personal computer.
Search engines are great way to pinpoint the information you need
The search engine's historical roots start with Archie.
It was developed by Alan Emtage in 1990.
This search engine was able to download all files from a File Transfer Protocol.
After Archie was created, a student from the University of Minnesota developed Gopher.
This program was able to index plain text files.
In 1993, the first web search engine was developed by Matthew Gray from MIT.
He called it Wandex.
However, the real revolution in search engines came from Webcrawler in 1994.
It allowed users to search for any word.
This became the standard for all the imitators to follow.
Search engines such as Lycos, Excite, Infoseek and Altavista were popular in the mid90s.
Now, the hit search engines in 2006 are Google, Yahoo, AOL and MSN.
A search engine is only as good as its results.
As a user we are looking for relevant results for our searches.
What most search engines do to improve and give their clientele what they need is the best results first.
However, there are search engines that give results based upon websites that pay money to be ranked high.
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