History of Search Engines

What is a Search Engine ?

Search Engine is a program which shows you web page links related to your search query.

Now a Days we can't imagine web without search engines. This powerful tool made our search easy and safe.

People use search engines to collect relevant information. When user enter some query in search box search engines search relevant links in their database and send it to user within some fraction of seconds.

So let us look at some brief history of search engines

Which is the first Internet Search Engine ?

Archie is considered as first internet search engine. It was created in 1990 by Alan Emtage, Bill Heelan and J. Peter Deutsch, computer science students at McGill University in Montreal.(But this search engine is not friendly as current popular search engines)

Then later in 1994 April, Brian Pinkerton created first Web search engine to provide full text search at University of Washington called WebCrawler

Then in 1995 Yahoo Launched as Directory(without own websearch capability, It launched Yahoo search with it's own web capability at 2004)

In 1998 Google and MSN(Bing) search engines are launched.

(Note- There are many number of search engines in web.Some of them are active and some of them are become inactive. I mentioned only few important popular search engines you can Check more here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_search_engine#History