Yahoo started off as just a list of favorite websites, eventually growing large enough to become a searchable index directory. They actually had their search services outsourced until , when they started to really work on their search engine. Google's unique and improving algorithm has made it one of the most popular search engines of all time. Other search engines continue to have a difficult time matching the relevancy algorithm Google has created by examining a number of factors such as social media, inbound links , fresh content, etc.
As evidenced by the above infographic, Google appeared on the search engine scene in Google was unique because it ranked pages according to citation notation, in which a mention of one site on a different website became a vote in that site's favor. Google also began judging sites by authority. A website's authority, or trustworthiness, was determined by how many other websites were linking to it, and how reliable those outside linking sites were.
Google search history can be witnessed by taking a look at Google's homepage progressions over the years. It's remarkable to see how basic and primitive the now most popular search engine once was. A picture of the original Google search engine homepage, back when Google was part of stanford. While Google is widely regarded as the most popular search engine, there are also a number of alternative search engines one can use.
Different search engines exist for unique needs. For example, you may want a search engine to help you search for blogs specifically, or perhaps you want search engines for kids that only return sites appropriate for children.
These free search engines enable you to easily find information that caters to your unique needs. In addition to standard search engines, there are deep web search engines as well. The deep web refers to areas of the internet that are not susceptible to normal indexing, and so can't easily be found and indexed by crawlers. These alternative search engines specialize in this not-easy-to-find data. Below is our top 10 internet search engines list. While deciding which is the "best" search engine depends on your unique wants and needs, below is a list of popular search engines, some more unique than others.
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But in nearby Mountain View, Google began work on engineering its own software-defined infrastructure, ultimately known as the Google File System, which would function as a platform that could serve a diverse range of use cases for all the services Google would offer as part of its future ecosystem.
Instead of using the latest storage appliances as a foundation, the Google File System used commodity servers to support a flexible and resilient architecture that could solve scalability and resiliency issues once and for all, simplifying and accelerating the future rollout of a wide range of web-scale applications, from maps to cloud storage. It took four years of ongoing development, and enormous amounts of engineering resources, before the Google File System reached the point where the company used it for mission-critical operations.
Meanwhile, Yahoo had been able to add NetApp filers almost immediately to keep up with growing demands for its services. In the race to dominate the Internet landscape, it appeared Yahoo had pulled far ahead. Over , visitors used the search tool on the first day and had 19 million hits by the end of , and 80 million per day at the end of Ironically in , AltaVista started exclusively providing search results for Yahoo! Despite success as a modest search interface, in Compaq released AltaVista as a web portal once again ironically hoping to compete with Yahoo!
By , efforts returned to sharpening the quality of the simple search interface. Near the end of , AltaVista became the first Internet search engine to offer image, audio, and video search as part of a new range of multimedia functionalities.
With this purchase, AltaVista became Yahoo! Babel Fish. Inktomi was founded in February by Eric Brewer, an assistant professor of computer science at the University of California Berkeley, and Paul Gauthier, a graduate student. In the process they founded a company based upon their success developing a search tool. The company was named after a mythical Lakota Indian spider known for cunning rather than brute force. After formation with Dave Perterschmidt as CEO, Brewer as the chief scientist, and Gauthier as the chief technology officer, the company established its first customer with HotWired who introduced the search engine HotBot in HotBot eventually evolved into newer versions including 5.
The interface and server infrastructure was changed to increase usability and offer new features. Inktomi was not just a search provider; its mission was to build scalable software applications at the core of the Internet.
For example in , Inktomi beta tested web traffic servers that managed network data flow eliminating bottlenecks and redundant Internet and corporate Intranet traffic and bandwidth.
The servers used caching to create localized repositories of information. At the time, the amount of redundant traffic on the Internet was between 40 and 80 percent. Accordingly, a large market existed for such technology with Internet service providers, network providers, and business enterprises. Starting in , Inktomi signed many customer deals. America Online and Digex Inc. Also in May of , Yahoo! Some other significant events in included the release of Traffic Server 2.
The shopping engine debuted in the spring of About the same time, Inktomi acquired ImpulseBuy. As its ecommerce shopping services expanded in , Inktomi upgraded and released Traffic Server 3. Traffic Server 3. As a result, with Traffic Server 3. These traffic servers helped corporate networks manage data for users without having to use the entire network and server infrastructure.
In , Inktomi created alliances with several partners to enter the wireless Internet infrastructure market. Inktomi announced creation of a million record search engine database called GEN3. The Content Bridge would allow web producers and hosts of information and ecommerce, to pay to have their content pushed to caching servers of a large network of Internet hosting delivery providers.
FastForward Network was a software developer for Internet broadcasts providing support for thousands of simultaneous Internet broadcasts. With this acquisition, Inktomi was able to release a product suite called Media Distribution Network that handled distribution of steaming media in a network. The Media Distribution Network suite complimented well their Content Delivery Suite for managing and distributing static content.
Inktomi also commenced enhancing its search engine software with enterprise-level XML Extensible Markup Language and more comprehensive search results including relevance, classification and rankings. Inktomi added a distributed crawling architecture scanning the web more frequently with content blending from separate databases.
In February , Inktomi released Traffic Server 4. In May , Inktomi introduced a pay-for-placement program called Index Connect in which participants could submit meta information about multimedia and other files enabling them to appear in search results. In comparison, Google was at just seven percent. The site finally went offline in Excite is another of the oldest search engines. It was founded in , with the site officially launching the following year.
Excite was one of the first search engines that provided more than just search. When the site went live in , it also offered portals for news and weather, an email service, an instant messaging service, stock quotes, and a fully customizable homepage.
In , Excite purchased WebCrawler and signed exclusive agreements with many of the largest tech companies of today, including Microsoft and Apple. Yahoo was founded in with its site going live in It is the most well-known of all the pre-Google search engines. Despite several rocky periods, including multiple buyouts, poor visitor numbers, and questionable product decisions, it is still a tech giant. As of , some of its other services include Yahoo News, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Finance, and Yahoo Sports, all of which rack up tens of millions of views per day.
According to Alexa , it is still the 11th most-visited site in the world as of Dogpile went live in November It has a terrible brand name, but maybe that's what made it memorable. The creator, Aaron Flin, was frustrated with the lack of consistency in results from other providers, so set about making a metasearch engine.
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