The first search engine was created by Alan Emtage, a student McGill university. His search engine was Called “Archie”. Archie worked by downloading directory listings from files that were located on anonymous FTP sites; Thus creating a searchable database of filenames. As Archie was limited to filenames only, it was a year later, in 1991, when Mark McCahill at the University of Minnesota created “Gopher”, which was able to index plain documents. Many of the sites that were first indexed by Gopher are now websites on the www.
Early search technology was very crude and innacurate. Many search engines started catching onto linking schemes and using them to provide accurate results. For the longest time search engines like altavista dominated the search engine market along with yahoo and others. Google rose to prominence in about 2001. For Google to have the impact that it did was justified with their revolutionary technology and concepts including PageRank, and link popularity. How many remote web sites and web pages that link to a given page is taken into consideration with PageRank, on the premise that good or desirable pages are linked to more...
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