The history of search engines has been published since 1945.
Perhaps the most detailed history of search engines has been published on the Internet. It originates in July 1945, when an American scientist, Dr. Vannivar Bush (Vannevar Bush) wrote the famous article “As long as we think,” in which he predicted the appearance of a personal computer (memex) and formulated the idea of hypertext.
Vanniver Bush quite accurately described the concept of the Internet and predicted the emergence of information retrieval systems. Such systems were supposed to be an integral part of the World Wide Web.
Actually, Vanniver Bush himself was engaged in the creation of search engines. In 1938, he developed and patented a device for quickly searching information on microfilms.
The future personal computer (memex) predicted by him was a fully automated system that stored all user documents and indexed them. The user could ask a question in natural language and get an answer from memex.
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Vanniver Bush first created the theory of the Internet and search technology. But in practice, his ideas were implemented by other scientists. In particular, the father of modern search engines is considered to be a professor at Harvard University Gerard Salton (Gerard Salton). The research team, under his leadership, developed the SMART (Salton's Magic Automatic Retriever of Text) text analysis and extraction system. In this system, many basic principles of modern search engines were first implemented and then described in the literature.
In the future, the history of search engines developed in parallel with the development of the Internet: after the creation of the ARPANet network, the invention of WWW followed, and then the first websites appeared on the Web. The very first search engine of the modern type on the Internet was the Archie system, created in 1990 by Canadian student Alan Emtage. In fact, several years before, about the same search engines were created in the depths of several computer corporations, including Hewlett-Packard, but all of them were intended for internal use, and therefore did not appear online.
By 1993, only three search engine bots wandered online. These were non-commercial developments. They could not cope with the rapid development of the WWW, which began at this time. In the mid-90s. The time has come for new, powerful search engines such as Excite , LookSmart and Lycos . Only a few years passed, and in 1998 the Google system was founded, which still dominates this market.
Vanniver Bush quite accurately described the concept of the Internet and predicted the emergence of information retrieval systems. Such systems were supposed to be an integral part of the World Wide Web.
Actually, Vanniver Bush himself was engaged in the creation of search engines. In 1938, he developed and patented a device for quickly searching information on microfilms.
The future personal computer (memex) predicted by him was a fully automated system that stored all user documents and indexed them. The user could ask a question in natural language and get an answer from memex.
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Vanniver Bush first created the theory of the Internet and search technology. But in practice, his ideas were implemented by other scientists. In particular, the father of modern search engines is considered to be a professor at Harvard University Gerard Salton (Gerard Salton). The research team, under his leadership, developed the SMART (Salton's Magic Automatic Retriever of Text) text analysis and extraction system. In this system, many basic principles of modern search engines were first implemented and then described in the literature.
In the future, the history of search engines developed in parallel with the development of the Internet: after the creation of the ARPANet network, the invention of WWW followed, and then the first websites appeared on the Web. The very first search engine of the modern type on the Internet was the Archie system, created in 1990 by Canadian student Alan Emtage. In fact, several years before, about the same search engines were created in the depths of several computer corporations, including Hewlett-Packard, but all of them were intended for internal use, and therefore did not appear online.
By 1993, only three search engine bots wandered online. These were non-commercial developments. They could not cope with the rapid development of the WWW, which began at this time. In the mid-90s. The time has come for new, powerful search engines such as Excite , LookSmart and Lycos . Only a few years passed, and in 1998 the Google system was founded, which still dominates this market.
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