Tava Insights: Search Engine History

Google was born in 1998, when two Stanford University students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, started working on a research project to build a better search engine. The project was funded by Sun Microsystems and Andy Bechtolsheim, a cofounder of Sun Microsystems. The project started with the idea of using the World Wide Web as a database to provide the most relevant information to users.

The idea behind Google was to use the power of the web to create a search engine that could rank webpages according to their relevance to a user’s search query. To accomplish this, Page and Brin developed a mathematical algorithm known as PageRank, which used a variety of factors to determine how relevant a webpage was to a user’s search query. PageRank used a variety of factors such as the number of incoming links to a webpage and the popularity of the websites linking to it.

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The Search Engine Technology has revolutionized the way we access information on the internet. With the invention of the World Wide Web in the early 1990s, search engines have grown from a small handful of specialized websites to a vast array of services that offer a variety of information retrieval methods.

The history of search engine technology dates back exactly then, to the early 1990s, when web search engine technology was first developed. Initially, search engines were created to help users locate information on the web more quickly and easily.

The start of the search engine technology is considered the launch of Archie, Veronica and Jughead. These three search engines were the first of their kind and were developed by Alan Emtage at McGill University in Canada. The search engines were designed to index files stored on anonymous FTP (File Transfer Protocol) servers, providing users with a way to locate specific files on the internet.

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