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
dIn Linke WHAT IS A SEARCH ENGINE AND HOW DOUSE ITY EARLY SEARCH ENGINES In September 1993 Oscar Nierstrasz at the University of Geneva in Switzerland launched one of the first basic search engines for the World Wide Web It was called W3Catalog W3CATALOG The W3Catalog search engine indexed web pages using the information gathered by people searching the Internet Another early search engine Wanderer was developed to measure the growth of the World Wide Web It did so by generating an index called Wandex CRAWLING INDEXING AND SEARCHING In December 1993 computer scientists at the University of Stirling in Scotland the United Kingdom U K released JumpStation This combined the three essential elements of a web search engine crawling using a computer program to catalog web pages indexing and searching JumpStation searched the Web using the titles and headers of web pages A year later Brian Pinkerton at the University of Washington released WebCrawler WebCrawler allowed users to search for words within the content of web pages Io
inke Skype SEARCH ENGINE HISTORY Boggs o 0 0 0 Yahoo C A D www yahoo com YAHOO I M I Mail News All Stories Eg News Thr Flo Then M Finance Ong C Sports Movies No A omg tak i Shine R Autos O Shopping Travel D More people started to use search engines following the release of WebCrawler in 1994 Yahoo was one of the most popular early search engines II ABC News
