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History of Search Location : Pop-Up WordStream– Search Engines How Search Engines Work: • Information Retrieval A user query prompts engines to return results, which are ranked hierarchically using trust and relevance signals. • Web Crawling Browses the web in a methodical, automated manner. History of Search Today, the average web surfer can search for a number of differently phrased words or keywords related to a specific topic and still come up with a plethora of great information from a myriad of sources. However, the world wide web wasn't always so easy to navigate; there was once a time when one had to know the exact wording of a website's title to find what they were looking for. A search for credit cards didn't prompt the engines to provide the user with related topics and keywords, and adding a URL to an engine's index sometimes took weeks to complete. Here is a complete history of the evolution of search engines. • Indexing Pages are analyzed by titles, headings and specific fields. This is the fastest form of search. Archie (or "Archive" without the "v") 1990 • First search engine • FTP site hosted an index of downloadable directory listings. • Due to limited space, only the listings were available and not the contents for each site. 1990 Robots Robots Exclusion Standard/Web Robots • Created by Martijn Kojer • Created standards for how search engines should/shouldn't index Archie Query Form - Veronica and Jughead 1991 • Searched file names and titles stored in Gopher index systems 1991 Search for content • Webmasters can block bots from their entire site or just specific pages Turbo Gopher VLib 1992 • Time Berners-Lee set up a Virtual Library • CERN webserver hosted a list of webservers in the early age of the Internet 1992 Trteiter ente 1993 Excite World Wide Web Wanderer February 1993 • Created by six Stanford undergrads • Bought by @Home on January 19, 1999 for $6.5 billion • Bankruptcy led to Infospace purchasing it in 2001 for $10 million June 1993 excite • Created by Matthew Gray • Bot counts active web servers and "measures the growth" of the Internet. Bot was soon upgraded to capture actual URLS. • Database was called the Wandex NOTE: Bot accessed same page hundreds of times a day and caused lag ALIWEB October 1993 Created by Martijn Koster • Crawled meta info and allowed the user to submit the pages they wanted indexed along with a description • No bot • Not using excessive bandwidth NOTE: people didn't know how to submit their sites --Primitive Web Search December 1993 • JumpStation: Info about page's title and header using simple linear search • World Wide Web Worm: Indexed titles and URLS (these two listed results in the order they were found without ranking) • RBSE Spider (had a rating system) (unless exact title was a match it was extremely hard to find anything) ALIWEB O infoseek 1994 Infoseek AltaVista January 1994 • Unlimited bandwith (for the time) • First to allow natural language queries • Advanced searching techniques Add or delete your own URL within 24 hours • Search tips and new features • Inktomi and Google sent them into irrelevancy February 2003: Overture intends to purchase AltaVista for $80 million in stock, $60 million in cash • Yahoo bought Overture in 2003 January 1994 • Webmasters could submit a page in realtime December 95: Netscape began using them as their default search altavista e galaxy. E|Net Galaxy January 1994 • Efficient in its utilization of different web search features • Unnecessary library due to small size of Internet YAHOO! SEARCH AWebCrawler] Yahoo! Directory April 1994 • Čreated by David Filo and Jerry Yang Began as a collection of favorable web pages Increasing size influenced them to become a searchable directory • A man-made description with each URL • Informational sites added for free, but they expanded to include commercial sites. This is still available for $300 a year. • Long wait time to be included • Yahoo! didn't work on their search engine until 2002 when they began acquiring other search directories. Until that time they had outsourced their search services WebCrawler April 1994 • First crawler that indexed entire pages • Too popular to be used during daytime • June 1995: AOL buys WebCrawler • 1997: Excite bought out WebCrawler • AOL begins using Excite Lycos July 1994 • Went public with catalog of 54,000 documents • Ranked Relevance retrieval • Prefix matching and word proximity • August 1994: Had identified 394,000 documents; 1.5 million by January 1995 • November 1996: Had identified 60 million documents (more than any other search engine) • October 2004: Lycos was sold to Daum LYCOSE Communications, the second largest Internet portal in Korea LookSmart 1995 • Competed with Yahoo by increasing inclusion rates back and forth • 1998: Bought non-commercial directory Zeal for $20 million • 2002: Transitioned into a pay per click provider, destroying reliability. Began depending on MSN by syndicating links through their portal • 2002: Bought WiseNut • 2003: Felt the sting of rejection when it was dumped by Microsoft and lost more than 65% of its annual revenue • 2006: Shut down Zeal 1995 LoôkSmart Where To Look For What You Need." 1996 Google HOTBOT Inktom i Inktomi: Hotbot May 1996 • Search engine Hotbot • Listed on Hotwire • October 2001:Inktomi exposed for accidentally allowing public to access database of spam sites (over one million) • Inktomi pioneered paid inclusion model • Not as effiicient as pay per click by Overture • December 2003: Yahoo bought them out for $235 million Google January 1996 • Larry and Sergey began working on BackRub, a search engine which utilized backlinks for search • It ranked pages using citation notation, meaning any mention of a website on another site would count it as a vote toward the mentioned site • A website's "authority" or reliability came from how many people linked to that site, and how trustworthy the linking sites were 1997 Ask Ask.com/Ask Jeeves April 1997 • Launch of a natural language search engine • Human editors tried to match search queries Powered by DirectHit, which aimed to rank links by poplarity. Easy to spam. • 2000: Teoma engine was released • Uses clustering to organize sites by subject specific popularity (local web communities) • 2001:Ask Jeeves bought Teoma to replace DirectHit • March 2005: IAC (owner of ticketmaster.com, match.com) buys Ask Jeeves for $1.85 billion, changes name to Ask.com and drops Teoma ΤΕ 1998 1998: Google launches • No one wanted to purchase the PageRank technology at the time 1999: Google got funding from Sequoia Capital as well as from a few other investors 1999: AOL selects google as a search partner 2000: Yahoo selects Google as a search partner 2000: Google launches Google Toolbar 2000: Google relaunches AdWords to sell ads on CPM basis May 2002: AOL uses Google to deliver search related ads. Turning point in winning over Overture MSN 1998 • MSN Search launches • Relied on Overture, Looksmart and Inktomi until Google proved their backlinks model • Launched preview of new engine in July 2004 • Dropped Yahoo! organic results for own in- house technology in January 2005 Dropped Yahoo's search ad program on May 2006 msn. Open Directory Project 1998 2003: Google launches Adsense, selling targeted ads on other websites. • Directory to download • Largest internet directory run by volunteer editors • Unlike Yahoo, not a long wait time • Netscape bought it in November 1998 • AOL buys Netscape same year for $4.5 billion o|z 1999 allthewed AllTheWeb 0 0 o find it all oo. overture O May 1999 • Sleek interface with advanced features • February 2003: Bought by Overture for $70 million • ATW was eventually rolled into Yahoo! Search Overture Services • Formerly Goto.com • The first company to successfully provide a pay-per-click placement search service Bought out AltaVista and AlITheWeb • 2003: Acquired by Yahoo! Search Marketing as the beginning of their pay- per-click Internet advertising services 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 Snap October 2005 • Overture owner Bill Gross launches Snap search engine • Shows search volumes ,revenues, and advertisers • Proved to be too complicated, not simplistic enough for the average web surfer 2006 LiveSearch September 2006 • Microsoft announces launch of Live Search Product Classic Web Search Enhanced Web Search 2007 snap Live Search 2008 Web Images Local QnA Beta News cuil bing TM 2009 Cuil June 2008 • Managed and developed by former Google employees • Has indexed 127 billion web pages as of Feb. 2009 Bing June 2009 • Rebranding of MSN/live search • Inline search suggestions for related searches directly in result set 2010 SOURCES: wikipedia; http://www.searchenginehistory.com; http://www.webhostingreport.com/learn/overture.html; http://thinkpink.com/bp/WebCrawler/History.html; http://www.google.com/corporate/history.html; http://www.websearchworkshop.co.uk/lycos_history.php History of Search Location : Pop-Up WordStream– Search Engines How Search Engines Work: • Information Retrieval A user query prompts engines to return results, which are ranked hierarchically using trust and relevance signals. • Web Crawling Browses the web in a methodical, automated manner. History of Search Today, the average web surfer can search for a number of differently phrased words or keywords related to a specific topic and still come up with a plethora of great information from a myriad of sources. However, the world wide web wasn't always so easy to navigate; there was once a time when one had to know the exact wording of a website's title to find what they were looking for. A search for credit cards didn't prompt the engines to provide the user with related topics and keywords, and adding a URL to an engine's index sometimes took weeks to complete. Here is a complete history of the evolution of search engines. • Indexing Pages are analyzed by titles, headings and specific fields. This is the fastest form of search. Archie (or "Archive" without the "v") 1990 • First search engine • FTP site hosted an index of downloadable directory listings. • Due to limited space, only the listings were available and not the contents for each site. 1990 Robots Robots Exclusion Standard/Web Robots • Created by Martijn Kojer • Created standards for how search engines should/shouldn't index Archie Query Form - Veronica and Jughead 1991 • Searched file names and titles stored in Gopher index systems 1991 Search for content • Webmasters can block bots from their entire site or just specific pages Turbo Gopher VLib 1992 • Time Berners-Lee set up a Virtual Library • CERN webserver hosted a list of webservers in the early age of the Internet 1992 Trteiter ente 1993 Excite World Wide Web Wanderer February 1993 • Created by six Stanford undergrads • Bought by @Home on January 19, 1999 for $6.5 billion • Bankruptcy led to Infospace purchasing it in 2001 for $10 million June 1993 excite • Created by Matthew Gray • Bot counts active web servers and "measures the growth" of the Internet. Bot was soon upgraded to capture actual URLS. • Database was called the Wandex NOTE: Bot accessed same page hundreds of times a day and caused lag ALIWEB October 1993 Created by Martijn Koster • Crawled meta info and allowed the user to submit the pages they wanted indexed along with a description • No bot • Not using excessive bandwidth NOTE: people didn't know how to submit their sites --Primitive Web Search December 1993 • JumpStation: Info about page's title and header using simple linear search • World Wide Web Worm: Indexed titles and URLS (these two listed results in the order they were found without ranking) • RBSE Spider (had a rating system) (unless exact title was a match it was extremely hard to find anything) ALIWEB O infoseek 1994 Infoseek AltaVista January 1994 • Unlimited bandwith (for the time) • First to allow natural language queries • Advanced searching techniques Add or delete your own URL within 24 hours • Search tips and new features • Inktomi and Google sent them into irrelevancy February 2003: Overture intends to purchase AltaVista for $80 million in stock, $60 million in cash • Yahoo bought Overture in 2003 January 1994 • Webmasters could submit a page in realtime December 95: Netscape began using them as their default search altavista e galaxy. E|Net Galaxy January 1994 • Efficient in its utilization of different web search features • Unnecessary library due to small size of Internet YAHOO! SEARCH AWebCrawler] Yahoo! Directory April 1994 • Čreated by David Filo and Jerry Yang Began as a collection of favorable web pages Increasing size influenced them to become a searchable directory • A man-made description with each URL • Informational sites added for free, but they expanded to include commercial sites. This is still available for $300 a year. • Long wait time to be included • Yahoo! didn't work on their search engine until 2002 when they began acquiring other search directories. Until that time they had outsourced their search services WebCrawler April 1994 • First crawler that indexed entire pages • Too popular to be used during daytime • June 1995: AOL buys WebCrawler • 1997: Excite bought out WebCrawler • AOL begins using Excite Lycos July 1994 • Went public with catalog of 54,000 documents • Ranked Relevance retrieval • Prefix matching and word proximity • August 1994: Had identified 394,000 documents; 1.5 million by January 1995 • November 1996: Had identified 60 million documents (more than any other search engine) • October 2004: Lycos was sold to Daum LYCOSE Communications, the second largest Internet portal in Korea LookSmart 1995 • Competed with Yahoo by increasing inclusion rates back and forth • 1998: Bought non-commercial directory Zeal for $20 million • 2002: Transitioned into a pay per click provider, destroying reliability. Began depending on MSN by syndicating links through their portal • 2002: Bought WiseNut • 2003: Felt the sting of rejection when it was dumped by Microsoft and lost more than 65% of its annual revenue • 2006: Shut down Zeal 1995 LoôkSmart Where To Look For What You Need." 1996 Google HOTBOT Inktom i Inktomi: Hotbot May 1996 • Search engine Hotbot • Listed on Hotwire • October 2001:Inktomi exposed for accidentally allowing public to access database of spam sites (over one million) • Inktomi pioneered paid inclusion model • Not as effiicient as pay per click by Overture • December 2003: Yahoo bought them out for $235 million Google January 1996 • Larry and Sergey began working on BackRub, a search engine which utilized backlinks for search • It ranked pages using citation notation, meaning any mention of a website on another site would count it as a vote toward the mentioned site • A website's "authority" or reliability came from how many people linked to that site, and how trustworthy the linking sites were 1997 Ask Ask.com/Ask Jeeves April 1997 • Launch of a natural language search engine • Human editors tried to match search queries Powered by DirectHit, which aimed to rank links by poplarity. Easy to spam. • 2000: Teoma engine was released • Uses clustering to organize sites by subject specific popularity (local web communities) • 2001:Ask Jeeves bought Teoma to replace DirectHit • March 2005: IAC (owner of ticketmaster.com, match.com) buys Ask Jeeves for $1.85 billion, changes name to Ask.com and drops Teoma ΤΕ 1998 1998: Google launches • No one wanted to purchase the PageRank technology at the time 1999: Google got funding from Sequoia Capital as well as from a few other investors 1999: AOL selects google as a search partner 2000: Yahoo selects Google as a search partner 2000: Google launches Google Toolbar 2000: Google relaunches AdWords to sell ads on CPM basis May 2002: AOL uses Google to deliver search related ads. Turning point in winning over Overture MSN 1998 • MSN Search launches • Relied on Overture, Looksmart and Inktomi until Google proved their backlinks model • Launched preview of new engine in July 2004 • Dropped Yahoo! organic results for own in- house technology in January 2005 Dropped Yahoo's search ad program on May 2006 msn. Open Directory Project 1998 2003: Google launches Adsense, selling targeted ads on other websites. • Directory to download • Largest internet directory run by volunteer editors • Unlike Yahoo, not a long wait time • Netscape bought it in November 1998 • AOL buys Netscape same year for $4.5 billion o|z 1999 allthewed AllTheWeb 0 0 o find it all oo. overture O May 1999 • Sleek interface with advanced features • February 2003: Bought by Overture for $70 million • ATW was eventually rolled into Yahoo! Search Overture Services • Formerly Goto.com • The first company to successfully provide a pay-per-click placement search service Bought out AltaVista and AlITheWeb • 2003: Acquired by Yahoo! Search Marketing as the beginning of their pay- per-click Internet advertising services 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 Snap October 2005 • Overture owner Bill Gross launches Snap search engine • Shows search volumes ,revenues, and advertisers • Proved to be too complicated, not simplistic enough for the average web surfer 2006 LiveSearch September 2006 • Microsoft announces launch of Live Search Product Classic Web Search Enhanced Web Search 2007 snap Live Search 2008 Web Images Local QnA Beta News cuil bing TM 2009 Cuil June 2008 • Managed and developed by former Google employees • Has indexed 127 billion web pages as of Feb. 2009 Bing June 2009 • Rebranding of MSN/live search • Inline search suggestions for related searches directly in result set 2010 SOURCES: wikipedia; http://www.searchenginehistory.com; http://www.webhostingreport.com/learn/overture.html; http://thinkpink.com/bp/WebCrawler/History.html; http://www.google.com/corporate/history.html; http://www.websearchworkshop.co.uk/lycos_history.php History of Search Location : Pop-Up WordStream– Search Engines How Search Engines Work: • Information Retrieval A user query prompts engines to return results, which are ranked hierarchically using trust and relevance signals. • Web Crawling Browses the web in a methodical, automated manner. History of Search Today, the average web surfer can search for a number of differently phrased words or keywords related to a specific topic and still come up with a plethora of great information from a myriad of sources. However, the world wide web wasn't always so easy to navigate; there was once a time when one had to know the exact wording of a website's title to find what they were looking for. A search for credit cards didn't prompt the engines to provide the user with related topics and keywords, and adding a URL to an engine's index sometimes took weeks to complete. Here is a complete history of the evolution of search engines. • Indexing Pages are analyzed by titles, headings and specific fields. This is the fastest form of search. Archie (or "Archive" without the "v") 1990 • First search engine • FTP site hosted an index of downloadable directory listings. • Due to limited space, only the listings were available and not the contents for each site. 1990 Robots Robots Exclusion Standard/Web Robots • Created by Martijn Kojer • Created standards for how search engines should/shouldn't index Archie Query Form - Veronica and Jughead 1991 • Searched file names and titles stored in Gopher index systems 1991 Search for content • Webmasters can block bots from their entire site or just specific pages Turbo Gopher VLib 1992 • Time Berners-Lee set up a Virtual Library • CERN webserver hosted a list of webservers in the early age of the Internet 1992 Trteiter ente 1993 Excite World Wide Web Wanderer February 1993 • Created by six Stanford undergrads • Bought by @Home on January 19, 1999 for $6.5 billion • Bankruptcy led to Infospace purchasing it in 2001 for $10 million June 1993 excite • Created by Matthew Gray • Bot counts active web servers and "measures the growth" of the Internet. Bot was soon upgraded to capture actual URLS. • Database was called the Wandex NOTE: Bot accessed same page hundreds of times a day and caused lag ALIWEB October 1993 Created by Martijn Koster • Crawled meta info and allowed the user to submit the pages they wanted indexed along with a description • No bot • Not using excessive bandwidth NOTE: people didn't know how to submit their sites --Primitive Web Search December 1993 • JumpStation: Info about page's title and header using simple linear search • World Wide Web Worm: Indexed titles and URLS (these two listed results in the order they were found without ranking) • RBSE Spider (had a rating system) (unless exact title was a match it was extremely hard to find anything) ALIWEB O infoseek 1994 Infoseek AltaVista January 1994 • Unlimited bandwith (for the time) • First to allow natural language queries • Advanced searching techniques Add or delete your own URL within 24 hours • Search tips and new features • Inktomi and Google sent them into irrelevancy February 2003: Overture intends to purchase AltaVista for $80 million in stock, $60 million in cash • Yahoo bought Overture in 2003 January 1994 • Webmasters could submit a page in realtime December 95: Netscape began using them as their default search altavista e galaxy. E|Net Galaxy January 1994 • Efficient in its utilization of different web search features • Unnecessary library due to small size of Internet YAHOO! SEARCH AWebCrawler] Yahoo! Directory April 1994 • Čreated by David Filo and Jerry Yang Began as a collection of favorable web pages Increasing size influenced them to become a searchable directory • A man-made description with each URL • Informational sites added for free, but they expanded to include commercial sites. This is still available for $300 a year. • Long wait time to be included • Yahoo! didn't work on their search engine until 2002 when they began acquiring other search directories. Until that time they had outsourced their search services WebCrawler April 1994 • First crawler that indexed entire pages • Too popular to be used during daytime • June 1995: AOL buys WebCrawler • 1997: Excite bought out WebCrawler • AOL begins using Excite Lycos July 1994 • Went public with catalog of 54,000 documents • Ranked Relevance retrieval • Prefix matching and word proximity • August 1994: Had identified 394,000 documents; 1.5 million by January 1995 • November 1996: Had identified 60 million documents (more than any other search engine) • October 2004: Lycos was sold to Daum LYCOSE Communications, the second largest Internet portal in Korea LookSmart 1995 • Competed with Yahoo by increasing inclusion rates back and forth • 1998: Bought non-commercial directory Zeal for $20 million • 2002: Transitioned into a pay per click provider, destroying reliability. Began depending on MSN by syndicating links through their portal • 2002: Bought WiseNut • 2003: Felt the sting of rejection when it was dumped by Microsoft and lost more than 65% of its annual revenue • 2006: Shut down Zeal 1995 LoôkSmart Where To Look For What You Need." 1996 Google HOTBOT Inktom i Inktomi: Hotbot May 1996 • Search engine Hotbot • Listed on Hotwire • October 2001:Inktomi exposed for accidentally allowing public to access database of spam sites (over one million) • Inktomi pioneered paid inclusion model • Not as effiicient as pay per click by Overture • December 2003: Yahoo bought them out for $235 million Google January 1996 • Larry and Sergey began working on BackRub, a search engine which utilized backlinks for search • It ranked pages using citation notation, meaning any mention of a website on another site would count it as a vote toward the mentioned site • A website's "authority" or reliability came from how many people linked to that site, and how trustworthy the linking sites were 1997 Ask Ask.com/Ask Jeeves April 1997 • Launch of a natural language search engine • Human editors tried to match search queries Powered by DirectHit, which aimed to rank links by poplarity. Easy to spam. • 2000: Teoma engine was released • Uses clustering to organize sites by subject specific popularity (local web communities) • 2001:Ask Jeeves bought Teoma to replace DirectHit • March 2005: IAC (owner of ticketmaster.com, match.com) buys Ask Jeeves for $1.85 billion, changes name to Ask.com and drops Teoma ΤΕ 1998 1998: Google launches • No one wanted to purchase the PageRank technology at the time 1999: Google got funding from Sequoia Capital as well as from a few other investors 1999: AOL selects google as a search partner 2000: Yahoo selects Google as a search partner 2000: Google launches Google Toolbar 2000: Google relaunches AdWords to sell ads on CPM basis May 2002: AOL uses Google to deliver search related ads. Turning point in winning over Overture MSN 1998 • MSN Search launches • Relied on Overture, Looksmart and Inktomi until Google proved their backlinks model • Launched preview of new engine in July 2004 • Dropped Yahoo! organic results for own in- house technology in January 2005 Dropped Yahoo's search ad program on May 2006 msn. Open Directory Project 1998 2003: Google launches Adsense, selling targeted ads on other websites. • Directory to download • Largest internet directory run by volunteer editors • Unlike Yahoo, not a long wait time • Netscape bought it in November 1998 • AOL buys Netscape same year for $4.5 billion o|z 1999 allthewed AllTheWeb 0 0 o find it all oo. overture O May 1999 • Sleek interface with advanced features • February 2003: Bought by Overture for $70 million • ATW was eventually rolled into Yahoo! Search Overture Services • Formerly Goto.com • The first company to successfully provide a pay-per-click placement search service Bought out AltaVista and AlITheWeb • 2003: Acquired by Yahoo! Search Marketing as the beginning of their pay- per-click Internet advertising services 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 Snap October 2005 • Overture owner Bill Gross launches Snap search engine • Shows search volumes ,revenues, and advertisers • Proved to be too complicated, not simplistic enough for the average web surfer 2006 LiveSearch September 2006 • Microsoft announces launch of Live Search Product Classic Web Search Enhanced Web Search 2007 snap Live Search 2008 Web Images Local QnA Beta News cuil bing TM 2009 Cuil June 2008 • Managed and developed by former Google employees • Has indexed 127 billion web pages as of Feb. 2009 Bing June 2009 • Rebranding of MSN/live search • Inline search suggestions for related searches directly in result set 2010 SOURCES: wikipedia; http://www.searchenginehistory.com; http://www.webhostingreport.com/learn/overture.html; http://thinkpink.com/bp/WebCrawler/History.html; http://www.google.com/corporate/history.html; http://www.websearchworkshop.co.uk/lycos_history.php History of Search Location : Pop-Up WordStream– Search Engines How Search Engines Work: • Information Retrieval A user query prompts engines to return results, which are ranked hierarchically using trust and relevance signals. • Web Crawling Browses the web in a methodical, automated manner. History of Search Today, the average web surfer can search for a number of differently phrased words or keywords related to a specific topic and still come up with a plethora of great information from a myriad of sources. However, the world wide web wasn't always so easy to navigate; there was once a time when one had to know the exact wording of a website's title to find what they were looking for. A search for credit cards didn't prompt the engines to provide the user with related topics and keywords, and adding a URL to an engine's index sometimes took weeks to complete. Here is a complete history of the evolution of search engines. • Indexing Pages are analyzed by titles, headings and specific fields. This is the fastest form of search. Archie (or "Archive" without the "v") 1990 • First search engine • FTP site hosted an index of downloadable directory listings. • Due to limited space, only the listings were available and not the contents for each site. 1990 Robots Robots Exclusion Standard/Web Robots • Created by Martijn Kojer • Created standards for how search engines should/shouldn't index Archie Query Form - Veronica and Jughead 1991 • Searched file names and titles stored in Gopher index systems 1991 Search for content • Webmasters can block bots from their entire site or just specific pages Turbo Gopher VLib 1992 • Time Berners-Lee set up a Virtual Library • CERN webserver hosted a list of webservers in the early age of the Internet 1992 Trteiter ente 1993 Excite World Wide Web Wanderer February 1993 • Created by six Stanford undergrads • Bought by @Home on January 19, 1999 for $6.5 billion • Bankruptcy led to Infospace purchasing it in 2001 for $10 million June 1993 excite • Created by Matthew Gray • Bot counts active web servers and "measures the growth" of the Internet. Bot was soon upgraded to capture actual URLS. • Database was called the Wandex NOTE: Bot accessed same page hundreds of times a day and caused lag ALIWEB October 1993 Created by Martijn Koster • Crawled meta info and allowed the user to submit the pages they wanted indexed along with a description • No bot • Not using excessive bandwidth NOTE: people didn't know how to submit their sites --Primitive Web Search December 1993 • JumpStation: Info about page's title and header using simple linear search • World Wide Web Worm: Indexed titles and URLS (these two listed results in the order they were found without ranking) • RBSE Spider (had a rating system) (unless exact title was a match it was extremely hard to find anything) ALIWEB O infoseek 1994 Infoseek AltaVista January 1994 • Unlimited bandwith (for the time) • First to allow natural language queries • Advanced searching techniques Add or delete your own URL within 24 hours • Search tips and new features • Inktomi and Google sent them into irrelevancy February 2003: Overture intends to purchase AltaVista for $80 million in stock, $60 million in cash • Yahoo bought Overture in 2003 January 1994 • Webmasters could submit a page in realtime December 95: Netscape began using them as their default search altavista e galaxy. E|Net Galaxy January 1994 • Efficient in its utilization of different web search features • Unnecessary library due to small size of Internet YAHOO! SEARCH AWebCrawler] Yahoo! Directory April 1994 • Čreated by David Filo and Jerry Yang Began as a collection of favorable web pages Increasing size influenced them to become a searchable directory • A man-made description with each URL • Informational sites added for free, but they expanded to include commercial sites. This is still available for $300 a year. • Long wait time to be included • Yahoo! didn't work on their search engine until 2002 when they began acquiring other search directories. Until that time they had outsourced their search services WebCrawler April 1994 • First crawler that indexed entire pages • Too popular to be used during daytime • June 1995: AOL buys WebCrawler • 1997: Excite bought out WebCrawler • AOL begins using Excite Lycos July 1994 • Went public with catalog of 54,000 documents • Ranked Relevance retrieval • Prefix matching and word proximity • August 1994: Had identified 394,000 documents; 1.5 million by January 1995 • November 1996: Had identified 60 million documents (more than any other search engine) • October 2004: Lycos was sold to Daum LYCOSE Communications, the second largest Internet portal in Korea LookSmart 1995 • Competed with Yahoo by increasing inclusion rates back and forth • 1998: Bought non-commercial directory Zeal for $20 million • 2002: Transitioned into a pay per click provider, destroying reliability. Began depending on MSN by syndicating links through their portal • 2002: Bought WiseNut • 2003: Felt the sting of rejection when it was dumped by Microsoft and lost more than 65% of its annual revenue • 2006: Shut down Zeal 1995 LoôkSmart Where To Look For What You Need." 1996 Google HOTBOT Inktom i Inktomi: Hotbot May 1996 • Search engine Hotbot • Listed on Hotwire • October 2001:Inktomi exposed for accidentally allowing public to access database of spam sites (over one million) • Inktomi pioneered paid inclusion model • Not as effiicient as pay per click by Overture • December 2003: Yahoo bought them out for $235 million Google January 1996 • Larry and Sergey began working on BackRub, a search engine which utilized backlinks for search • It ranked pages using citation notation, meaning any mention of a website on another site would count it as a vote toward the mentioned site • A website's "authority" or reliability came from how many people linked to that site, and how trustworthy the linking sites were 1997 Ask Ask.com/Ask Jeeves April 1997 • Launch of a natural language search engine • Human editors tried to match search queries Powered by DirectHit, which aimed to rank links by poplarity. Easy to spam. • 2000: Teoma engine was released • Uses clustering to organize sites by subject specific popularity (local web communities) • 2001:Ask Jeeves bought Teoma to replace DirectHit • March 2005: IAC (owner of ticketmaster.com, match.com) buys Ask Jeeves for $1.85 billion, changes name to Ask.com and drops Teoma ΤΕ 1998 1998: Google launches • No one wanted to purchase the PageRank technology at the time 1999: Google got funding from Sequoia Capital as well as from a few other investors 1999: AOL selects google as a search partner 2000: Yahoo selects Google as a search partner 2000: Google launches Google Toolbar 2000: Google relaunches AdWords to sell ads on CPM basis May 2002: AOL uses Google to deliver search related ads. Turning point in winning over Overture MSN 1998 • MSN Search launches • Relied on Overture, Looksmart and Inktomi until Google proved their backlinks model • Launched preview of new engine in July 2004 • Dropped Yahoo! organic results for own in- house technology in January 2005 Dropped Yahoo's search ad program on May 2006 msn. Open Directory Project 1998 2003: Google launches Adsense, selling targeted ads on other websites. • Directory to download • Largest internet directory run by volunteer editors • Unlike Yahoo, not a long wait time • Netscape bought it in November 1998 • AOL buys Netscape same year for $4.5 billion o|z 1999 allthewed AllTheWeb 0 0 o find it all oo. overture O May 1999 • Sleek interface with advanced features • February 2003: Bought by Overture for $70 million • ATW was eventually rolled into Yahoo! Search Overture Services • Formerly Goto.com • The first company to successfully provide a pay-per-click placement search service Bought out AltaVista and AlITheWeb • 2003: Acquired by Yahoo! Search Marketing as the beginning of their pay- per-click Internet advertising services 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 Snap October 2005 • Overture owner Bill Gross launches Snap search engine • Shows search volumes ,revenues, and advertisers • Proved to be too complicated, not simplistic enough for the average web surfer 2006 LiveSearch September 2006 • Microsoft announces launch of Live Search Product Classic Web Search Enhanced Web Search 2007 snap Live Search 2008 Web Images Local QnA Beta News cuil bing TM 2009 Cuil June 2008 • Managed and developed by former Google employees • Has indexed 127 billion web pages as of Feb. 2009 Bing June 2009 • Rebranding of MSN/live search • Inline search suggestions for related searches directly in result set 2010 SOURCES: wikipedia; http://www.searchenginehistory.com; http://www.webhostingreport.com/learn/overture.html; http://thinkpink.com/bp/WebCrawler/History.html; http://www.google.com/corporate/history.html; http://www.websearchworkshop.co.uk/lycos_history.php History of Search Location : Pop-Up WordStream– Search Engines How Search Engines Work: • Information Retrieval A user query prompts engines to return results, which are ranked hierarchically using trust and relevance signals. • Web Crawling Browses the web in a methodical, automated manner. History of Search Today, the average web surfer can search for a number of differently phrased words or keywords related to a specific topic and still come up with a plethora of great information from a myriad of sources. However, the world wide web wasn't always so easy to navigate; there was once a time when one had to know the exact wording of a website's title to find what they were looking for. A search for credit cards didn't prompt the engines to provide the user with related topics and keywords, and adding a URL to an engine's index sometimes took weeks to complete. Here is a complete history of the evolution of search engines. • Indexing Pages are analyzed by titles, headings and specific fields. This is the fastest form of search. Archie (or "Archive" without the "v") 1990 • First search engine • FTP site hosted an index of downloadable directory listings. • Due to limited space, only the listings were available and not the contents for each site. 1990 Robots Robots Exclusion Standard/Web Robots • Created by Martijn Kojer • Created standards for how search engines should/shouldn't index Archie Query Form - Veronica and Jughead 1991 • Searched file names and titles stored in Gopher index systems 1991 Search for content • Webmasters can block bots from their entire site or just specific pages Turbo Gopher VLib 1992 • Time Berners-Lee set up a Virtual Library • CERN webserver hosted a list of webservers in the early age of the Internet 1992 Trteiter ente 1993 Excite World Wide Web Wanderer February 1993 • Created by six Stanford undergrads • Bought by @Home on January 19, 1999 for $6.5 billion • Bankruptcy led to Infospace purchasing it in 2001 for $10 million June 1993 excite • Created by Matthew Gray • Bot counts active web servers and "measures the growth" of the Internet. Bot was soon upgraded to capture actual URLS. • Database was called the Wandex NOTE: Bot accessed same page hundreds of times a day and caused lag ALIWEB October 1993 Created by Martijn Koster • Crawled meta info and allowed the user to submit the pages they wanted indexed along with a description • No bot • Not using excessive bandwidth NOTE: people didn't know how to submit their sites --Primitive Web Search December 1993 • JumpStation: Info about page's title and header using simple linear search • World Wide Web Worm: Indexed titles and URLS (these two listed results in the order they were found without ranking) • RBSE Spider (had a rating system) (unless exact title was a match it was extremely hard to find anything) ALIWEB O infoseek 1994 Infoseek AltaVista January 1994 • Unlimited bandwith (for the time) • First to allow natural language queries • Advanced searching techniques Add or delete your own URL within 24 hours • Search tips and new features • Inktomi and Google sent them into irrelevancy February 2003: Overture intends to purchase AltaVista for $80 million in stock, $60 million in cash • Yahoo bought Overture in 2003 January 1994 • Webmasters could submit a page in realtime December 95: Netscape began using them as their default search altavista e galaxy. E|Net Galaxy January 1994 • Efficient in its utilization of different web search features • Unnecessary library due to small size of Internet YAHOO! SEARCH AWebCrawler] Yahoo! Directory April 1994 • Čreated by David Filo and Jerry Yang Began as a collection of favorable web pages Increasing size influenced them to become a searchable directory • A man-made description with each URL • Informational sites added for free, but they expanded to include commercial sites. This is still available for $300 a year. • Long wait time to be included • Yahoo! didn't work on their search engine until 2002 when they began acquiring other search directories. Until that time they had outsourced their search services WebCrawler April 1994 • First crawler that indexed entire pages • Too popular to be used during daytime • June 1995: AOL buys WebCrawler • 1997: Excite bought out WebCrawler • AOL begins using Excite Lycos July 1994 • Went public with catalog of 54,000 documents • Ranked Relevance retrieval • Prefix matching and word proximity • August 1994: Had identified 394,000 documents; 1.5 million by January 1995 • November 1996: Had identified 60 million documents (more than any other search engine) • October 2004: Lycos was sold to Daum LYCOSE Communications, the second largest Internet portal in Korea LookSmart 1995 • Competed with Yahoo by increasing inclusion rates back and forth • 1998: Bought non-commercial directory Zeal for $20 million • 2002: Transitioned into a pay per click provider, destroying reliability. Began depending on MSN by syndicating links through their portal • 2002: Bought WiseNut • 2003: Felt the sting of rejection when it was dumped by Microsoft and lost more than 65% of its annual revenue • 2006: Shut down Zeal 1995 LoôkSmart Where To Look For What You Need." 1996 Google HOTBOT Inktom i Inktomi: Hotbot May 1996 • Search engine Hotbot • Listed on Hotwire • October 2001:Inktomi exposed for accidentally allowing public to access database of spam sites (over one million) • Inktomi pioneered paid inclusion model • Not as effiicient as pay per click by Overture • December 2003: Yahoo bought them out for $235 million Google January 1996 • Larry and Sergey began working on BackRub, a search engine which utilized backlinks for search • It ranked pages using citation notation, meaning any mention of a website on another site would count it as a vote toward the mentioned site • A website's "authority" or reliability came from how many people linked to that site, and how trustworthy the linking sites were 1997 Ask Ask.com/Ask Jeeves April 1997 • Launch of a natural language search engine • Human editors tried to match search queries Powered by DirectHit, which aimed to rank links by poplarity. Easy to spam. • 2000: Teoma engine was released • Uses clustering to organize sites by subject specific popularity (local web communities) • 2001:Ask Jeeves bought Teoma to replace DirectHit • March 2005: IAC (owner of ticketmaster.com, match.com) buys Ask Jeeves for $1.85 billion, changes name to Ask.com and drops Teoma ΤΕ 1998 1998: Google launches • No one wanted to purchase the PageRank technology at the time 1999: Google got funding from Sequoia Capital as well as from a few other investors 1999: AOL selects google as a search partner 2000: Yahoo selects Google as a search partner 2000: Google launches Google Toolbar 2000: Google relaunches AdWords to sell ads on CPM basis May 2002: AOL uses Google to deliver search related ads. Turning point in winning over Overture MSN 1998 • MSN Search launches • Relied on Overture, Looksmart and Inktomi until Google proved their backlinks model • Launched preview of new engine in July 2004 • Dropped Yahoo! organic results for own in- house technology in January 2005 Dropped Yahoo's search ad program on May 2006 msn. Open Directory Project 1998 2003: Google launches Adsense, selling targeted ads on other websites. • Directory to download • Largest internet directory run by volunteer editors • Unlike Yahoo, not a long wait time • Netscape bought it in November 1998 • AOL buys Netscape same year for $4.5 billion o|z 1999 allthewed AllTheWeb 0 0 o find it all oo. overture O May 1999 • Sleek interface with advanced features • February 2003: Bought by Overture for $70 million • ATW was eventually rolled into Yahoo! Search Overture Services • Formerly Goto.com • The first company to successfully provide a pay-per-click placement search service Bought out AltaVista and AlITheWeb • 2003: Acquired by Yahoo! Search Marketing as the beginning of their pay- per-click Internet advertising services 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 Snap October 2005 • Overture owner Bill Gross launches Snap search engine • Shows search volumes ,revenues, and advertisers • Proved to be too complicated, not simplistic enough for the average web surfer 2006 LiveSearch September 2006 • Microsoft announces launch of Live Search Product Classic Web Search Enhanced Web Search 2007 snap Live Search 2008 Web Images Local QnA Beta News cuil bing TM 2009 Cuil June 2008 • Managed and developed by former Google employees • Has indexed 127 billion web pages as of Feb. 2009 Bing June 2009 • Rebranding of MSN/live search • Inline search suggestions for related searches directly in result set 2010 SOURCES: wikipedia; http://www.searchenginehistory.com; http://www.webhostingreport.com/learn/overture.html; http://thinkpink.com/bp/WebCrawler/History.html; http://www.google.com/corporate/history.html; http://www.websearchworkshop.co.uk/lycos_history.php History of Search Location : Pop-Up WordStream– Search Engines How Search Engines Work: • Information Retrieval A user query prompts engines to return results, which are ranked hierarchically using trust and relevance signals. • Web Crawling Browses the web in a methodical, automated manner. History of Search Today, the average web surfer can search for a number of differently phrased words or keywords related to a specific topic and still come up with a plethora of great information from a myriad of sources. However, the world wide web wasn't always so easy to navigate; there was once a time when one had to know the exact wording of a website's title to find what they were looking for. A search for credit cards didn't prompt the engines to provide the user with related topics and keywords, and adding a URL to an engine's index sometimes took weeks to complete. Here is a complete history of the evolution of search engines. • Indexing Pages are analyzed by titles, headings and specific fields. This is the fastest form of search. Archie (or "Archive" without the "v") 1990 • First search engine • FTP site hosted an index of downloadable directory listings. • Due to limited space, only the listings were available and not the contents for each site. 1990 Robots Robots Exclusion Standard/Web Robots • Created by Martijn Kojer • Created standards for how search engines should/shouldn't index Archie Query Form - Veronica and Jughead 1991 • Searched file names and titles stored in Gopher index systems 1991 Search for content • Webmasters can block bots from their entire site or just specific pages Turbo Gopher VLib 1992 • Time Berners-Lee set up a Virtual Library • CERN webserver hosted a list of webservers in the early age of the Internet 1992 Trteiter ente 1993 Excite World Wide Web Wanderer February 1993 • Created by six Stanford undergrads • Bought by @Home on January 19, 1999 for $6.5 billion • Bankruptcy led to Infospace purchasing it in 2001 for $10 million June 1993 excite • Created by Matthew Gray • Bot counts active web servers and "measures the growth" of the Internet. Bot was soon upgraded to capture actual URLS. • Database was called the Wandex NOTE: Bot accessed same page hundreds of times a day and caused lag ALIWEB October 1993 Created by Martijn Koster • Crawled meta info and allowed the user to submit the pages they wanted indexed along with a description • No bot • Not using excessive bandwidth NOTE: people didn't know how to submit their sites --Primitive Web Search December 1993 • JumpStation: Info about page's title and header using simple linear search • World Wide Web Worm: Indexed titles and URLS (these two listed results in the order they were found without ranking) • RBSE Spider (had a rating system) (unless exact title was a match it was extremely hard to find anything) ALIWEB O infoseek 1994 Infoseek AltaVista January 1994 • Unlimited bandwith (for the time) • First to allow natural language queries • Advanced searching techniques Add or delete your own URL within 24 hours • Search tips and new features • Inktomi and Google sent them into irrelevancy February 2003: Overture intends to purchase AltaVista for $80 million in stock, $60 million in cash • Yahoo bought Overture in 2003 January 1994 • Webmasters could submit a page in realtime December 95: Netscape began using them as their default search altavista e galaxy. E|Net Galaxy January 1994 • Efficient in its utilization of different web search features • Unnecessary library due to small size of Internet YAHOO! SEARCH AWebCrawler] Yahoo! Directory April 1994 • Čreated by David Filo and Jerry Yang Began as a collection of favorable web pages Increasing size influenced them to become a searchable directory • A man-made description with each URL • Informational sites added for free, but they expanded to include commercial sites. This is still available for $300 a year. • Long wait time to be included • Yahoo! didn't work on their search engine until 2002 when they began acquiring other search directories. Until that time they had outsourced their search services WebCrawler April 1994 • First crawler that indexed entire pages • Too popular to be used during daytime • June 1995: AOL buys WebCrawler • 1997: Excite bought out WebCrawler • AOL begins using Excite Lycos July 1994 • Went public with catalog of 54,000 documents • Ranked Relevance retrieval • Prefix matching and word proximity • August 1994: Had identified 394,000 documents; 1.5 million by January 1995 • November 1996: Had identified 60 million documents (more than any other search engine) • October 2004: Lycos was sold to Daum LYCOSE Communications, the second largest Internet portal in Korea LookSmart 1995 • Competed with Yahoo by increasing inclusion rates back and forth • 1998: Bought non-commercial directory Zeal for $20 million • 2002: Transitioned into a pay per click provider, destroying reliability. Began depending on MSN by syndicating links through their portal • 2002: Bought WiseNut • 2003: Felt the sting of rejection when it was dumped by Microsoft and lost more than 65% of its annual revenue • 2006: Shut down Zeal 1995 LoôkSmart Where To Look For What You Need." 1996 Google HOTBOT Inktom i Inktomi: Hotbot May 1996 • Search engine Hotbot • Listed on Hotwire • October 2001:Inktomi exposed for accidentally allowing public to access database of spam sites (over one million) • Inktomi pioneered paid inclusion model • Not as effiicient as pay per click by Overture • December 2003: Yahoo bought them out for $235 million Google January 1996 • Larry and Sergey began working on BackRub, a search engine which utilized backlinks for search • It ranked pages using citation notation, meaning any mention of a website on another site would count it as a vote toward the mentioned site • A website's "authority" or reliability came from how many people linked to that site, and how trustworthy the linking sites were 1997 Ask Ask.com/Ask Jeeves April 1997 • Launch of a natural language search engine • Human editors tried to match search queries Powered by DirectHit, which aimed to rank links by poplarity. Easy to spam. • 2000: Teoma engine was released • Uses clustering to organize sites by subject specific popularity (local web communities) • 2001:Ask Jeeves bought Teoma to replace DirectHit • March 2005: IAC (owner of ticketmaster.com, match.com) buys Ask Jeeves for $1.85 billion, changes name to Ask.com and drops Teoma ΤΕ 1998 1998: Google launches • No one wanted to purchase the PageRank technology at the time 1999: Google got funding from Sequoia Capital as well as from a few other investors 1999: AOL selects google as a search partner 2000: Yahoo selects Google as a search partner 2000: Google launches Google Toolbar 2000: Google relaunches AdWords to sell ads on CPM basis May 2002: AOL uses Google to deliver search related ads. Turning point in winning over Overture MSN 1998 • MSN Search launches • Relied on Overture, Looksmart and Inktomi until Google proved their backlinks model • Launched preview of new engine in July 2004 • Dropped Yahoo! organic results for own in- house technology in January 2005 Dropped Yahoo's search ad program on May 2006 msn. Open Directory Project 1998 2003: Google launches Adsense, selling targeted ads on other websites. • Directory to download • Largest internet directory run by volunteer editors • Unlike Yahoo, not a long wait time • Netscape bought it in November 1998 • AOL buys Netscape same year for $4.5 billion o|z 1999 allthewed AllTheWeb 0 0 o find it all oo. overture O May 1999 • Sleek interface with advanced features • February 2003: Bought by Overture for $70 million • ATW was eventually rolled into Yahoo! Search Overture Services • Formerly Goto.com • The first company to successfully provide a pay-per-click placement search service Bought out AltaVista and AlITheWeb • 2003: Acquired by Yahoo! Search Marketing as the beginning of their pay- per-click Internet advertising services 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 Snap October 2005 • Overture owner Bill Gross launches Snap search engine • Shows search volumes ,revenues, and advertisers • Proved to be too complicated, not simplistic enough for the average web surfer 2006 LiveSearch September 2006 • Microsoft announces launch of Live Search Product Classic Web Search Enhanced Web Search 2007 snap Live Search 2008 Web Images Local QnA Beta News cuil bing TM 2009 Cuil June 2008 • Managed and developed by former Google employees • Has indexed 127 billion web pages as of Feb. 2009 Bing June 2009 • Rebranding of MSN/live search • Inline search suggestions for related searches directly in result set 2010 SOURCES: wikipedia; http://www.searchenginehistory.com; http://www.webhostingreport.com/learn/overture.html; http://thinkpink.com/bp/WebCrawler/History.html; http://www.google.com/corporate/history.html; http://www.websearchworkshop.co.uk/lycos_history.php

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