Wandex or Nine things you didn’t know about search engines

In the picture: Big Three. Or…?

We take search engines for granted. They exist because they must exist. Without them, finding the right and adequate information among many millions of web pages would be an almost impossible task.

Here are nine, most likely unknown facts about search engines.

1. Invented in 1936?
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The idea, which led further to the invention of hypertext, and the argument about the need to develop a system for quickly extracting data from the stored information (the equivalent of today's search engines) were published in 1945 by American engineer and science administrator Vannevar Bush (Vannevar Bush). His essay " How we could think " was probably written back in 1936. The notion of a memory expander device introduced by him contained original ideas that, in the end, were embodied on the Internet.

2. Magic automatic text extractor

The first real search engine was created in the 1960s by Gerard Salton. He and his group at Cornell University developed the SMART information retrieval system . SMART is an abbreviation of Salton's Magic Automatic Retriever of Text, i.e. “Selton's Magic Automatic Text Extractor”. Gerard Salton is considered the father of modern search technology.

3. First on the Internet

The first search engine on the Internet was called Archie . It was designed for indexing FTP archives. The name Archie is just Archive without the letter “v”.

4. First web search

The first search engine for websites was called Wandex :) :) :) (smiles from the translator). It was released in 1993 and used the index created by the first World Index Web Web Indexer Wanderer , which was written in Perl by Matthew Gray from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Now Matthew Gray is working at Google.

5. Who had nothing to do

In December 1993, there were 623 websites on the Internet, so the work of the first search engines was less than with today's more than 162 million websites.

6. The first full-text search

The first search engine that indexed pages entirely was WebCrawler . Launched in 1994, WebCrawler was the first system to offer full-text search, like today's search engines. Prior to this, search engines indexed only page headers and information from meta tags. Today, WebCrawler has become a metasearch system that integrates information from Google, Yahoo, Live, and other search engines.

7. ProtoGoogle

Larry Page and Sergey Brin began work on technology, which later turned into Google, in 1996. The original project name is BackRub .

8. Yahoo and Microsoft - delayed entry into the game

Yahoo and Microsoft did not have their own search technology until 2004. Yahoo Search used data from AltaVista and Inktomi, and even Google for some time. MSN Search (now Live Search) followed a similar path, although it did not use Google services. Microsoft launched its own search technology only in 2005 (the beta version appeared in 2004).

9. Big Three - not exactly what you thought.

Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are usually referred to as the big search three, but this is incorrect, in any case, if you will be based on the total number of search queries worldwide . The Chinese search engine Baidu is ahead of Microsoft Live Search in the number of search queries ... Thus, the big three are Google, Yahoo and Baidu.