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
dIn WHAT IS A SEARCH ENGINE AND HOW DO USE ITY BEFORE THE WEB The earliest search engines were invented before Berners Lee created the World Wide Web They were used to search public FTP sites protocols that distribute files over a network These search engines searched for information on a specific site rather than on the entire web People used early search engines to search for computer files on FTP sites FTP stands for File Transfer
SEARCH ENGINE HISTORY ARCHIE In 1990 computer experts at McGill University in Montreal Canada released the first tool to search the Internet It was called Archie which is Archive without the v Archie created a searchable database of file names on public FTP sites New SEARCH TooLS In 1991 Mark McCahill at the University of Minnesota created a new tool called Gopher to search for files on the Internet In turn this led to more sophisticated search programs such as Veronica and Jughead see below Despite these developments by the middle of 1993 no search tool had been created yet for the World Wide Web VERONICA AND JUGHEAD Veronica stands for Very Easy Rodent Oriented Net wide Index to Computerized Archives Jughead stands for Jonzy's Universal Gopher Hierarchy Excavation And Display These search programs are named for the characters Veronica and Jughead from the Archie comic
