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Search Engine History-Relatively Speaking
1990 Search engines begin before the internet. The first one was called “Archie” short for “archives”. This was soon followed by Veronica & Jughead (though Archie was not intended to be named after the comic strip) 1991 The first website was created and put “online” on the world wide web on August 6th 1991. - The address is: http://info.cern.ch/ You can still access this site. 1992 1993 February – Excite was born and by mid 1993 they were funded and distributing copies of the software for use on websites. June - First web robot was created called the “world wide web wanderer” and the index from this robot was referred to as wandex. It caused a lot of lag because it accessed the same page hundreds of times/day. Many questioned the value of robots. October - Aliweb answers the issues of the wanderer by allowing people to submit a site so no bot was needed. However, many did not know how to submit a site. December – 3 full fledged bot fed search engines have arrived on the scene. 1- Jumpstation 2- World Wide Web Worm 3- RBSE. The issue with Jumpstation and World Wide Web Worm was that they displayed results in the order that they found the sites making it impossible to find a site unless you already knew the name. RBSE did use a ranking system. 1994 February – Yahoo starts out as a personal guide to keep track of their personal internet interest (starts as Jerry and Davids guide to the world wide web) April – Webcrawler begins and is the first to be able to index an entire pages. It becomes so popular that it cannot be used during the day. Aol eventually buys out webcrawler and runs it on their network until 1997. July – Lycos is born and by August has 394,000 documents indexed. Gains ground quickly as largest index on the web. Infoseek is born sometime in 1994. They allow webmasters to submit pages in real time which becomes a spammers paradise. 1995 December – Netscape uses infoseek as their default search engine. Alta Vista is born. They offer many new things including advanced search techniques. 1996 January – BackRub (The precursor to Google) is in the works. May – Inktomi becomes popular quickly but a poor business plan will spell their doom 1997 Excite buys out webcralwer from Aol and Aol begins using excite in its NetFind. April – Ask Jeeves is launched and uses a human base of editors to match queries. Ask Jeeves was powered by direct hit for awhile as well which was based on popularity, but that proved easy to spam. 1998 Overture is launched (first launched under the name GoTo) MSN search is launched September - Google opens it’s doors and by years end was named in the top 100 websites and search engines 1999 Aol selects Google as its search partner January – Excite is bought out by @home May – Alltheweb is launched. 2000 Teoma search engine was launched. Google Launches Adwords June – Google becomes largest search engine with 1 billion page index Yahoo announces partnership w/ Goolge 2001 Ask Jeeves buys Teoma to replace the technology of directhit. February – Google buys deja.com (the largest volume of data on the net) October - Excite files for bankruptcy however infospace buys them out of bankruptcy court. 2002 February – Google relaunches Adwords in a format similar to Overture’s model December - Yahoo buys Inktomi 2003 February – Overture signs letter of intent to buy Alta Vista and buys Alltheweb. March - Google announces their content targeted ad network (adsense) April – Google buys Applied Semantics July – Yahoo Buys Overture December – Yahoo Buys Inktomi 2004 March – Ask Jeeves agrees to aquire interactive search holdings June – Yahoo dumps Goolge partnership July – MSN launches technology preview of their search engine 2005 January – MSN switches from Yahoo results to their own technology March – Yahoo buys Flickr IAC agrees to aquire Ask Jeeves. Iac owns and promotes Ask Jeeves across their other websites which include: Match.com, Ticketmaster.com, and Citysearch.com December – Google invest in aol to keep partnership Yahoo buys Del.icio.us 2006 Ask Jeeves changes name to Ask and kills the brand name of Teoma January – Google buys dMarc Broadcasting February – Google pays Dell for 3 years of toolbar distribution May – MSN dumps Yahoo search ad program and Microsoft Ad center is launched Microsoft buys video game add targeting firm – Massive inc. August – Google signs 3 year deal to provide search on MySpace September – Google partners w/ Intuit to allow small business using QuickBooks to buy addwords within the program Microsoft announces launching of Live Search October – Google buys You Tube Google pays Mozilla & Opera to be default search provider in their browsers Google bundles toolbar with Adobe software and Sun Microsystems 2007 March- Google announces that they are creating a distributed pay per action affiliate ad network April – Google buys Double Click
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