Introduction (Adam Shell)
Since the beginning of time (well the computer age anyway) the amount of data stored electornically has risen exponentially. With this growth of data came the need for applications to be developed which allowed users to find information which was relevant to there need. The quality and sophistication of these applications have improved dramatically.
Early Search Engines (Sachin Kumar)
The information in this section has been sourced from Wikipedia
With the proliferation of web pages on the Internet at a breakneck speed, the ability to navigate to sites of interest became more difficult.
It appears the earliest search engine tool was a tool called “Archie” in 1990. It indexed filenames, but not their contents. Other notable search engines that were developed later included Lycos in 1994 and Altavista, in 1995, which was the first multilingual search engine. These engines competed with Yahoo!, itself coming online in 1994, which was essentially an online directory of websites of information, which later had a search engine feature built into it. “Ask Jeeves” was another search engine developed in 1996, and its unique characteristic was that one could key in search terms in natural language (ie in the form of a question). However, one search engine emerged in 1998, that would change the playing field irrevocably...
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