II A search engine is one of the most important tools you can use to find pages on the World Wide
INTRODUCTION search engine is a tool that helps you find information on the Internet The results of your search are displayed on a page called the Search Engine Results Page SERP There is a vast amount of information on the Internet Search engines make finding information quick and easy They use computer programs to comb through the millions of pages on the web Search engines index the pages which means they organize them into groups with similar content One group could be all the pages about the president of the United States Another group could be all the pages about a baseball team If you want to find out about movies at your local movie theater for example you can use a search engine such as Google to help you When you type www google com into your Internet browser the Google logo appears in the middle of the web page If you type the name of your local movie theater in the search box a list of pages about this theater will be displayed Then all you need to do is click on a page to see if it has the information you
CHAPTER1 SEARCH ENGINE HISTORY he World Wide Web is part of the Internet Using a computer connected to the Internet and a web browser you can access websites Search engines help you find the information that you are looking for THE FIRST PAGE British computer expert Tim Berners Lee created the first website in 1991 As people became familiar with web pages and how to build them they created their own websites This collection of web pages became known as the World Wide Web In the early 1990s there were only a handful of web pages on the World Wide Web By 1994 there were approximately 10 000 web pages Today there are billions of pages on almost every subject imaginable You can access the World Wide Web with the click of a
SEARCH ENGINE HISTORY Blogger SEARCH ENGINE BIO Timothy Berners Lee was born in London England in 1955 In 1980 he devised a computer language called Hypertext Markup Language HTML to allow people to share information on the Internet Hypertext is the interactive text on a computer display It allows you to click on hyperlinks to move around the World Wide Web quickly and easily In 2004 Queen Elizabeth Il honored Berners Lee with a knighthood for his contribution to computer science SCO PLY ET S Y ch I Y S O Tim Berners Lee is the computer programmer who invented the World Wide Web 1 FRS S
