Search Engines

Search Engines are a software system designed to look though large amounts of information and are commonly accessed through the internet. The most common search engine is Google but there are others such as Yahoo and Bing.

History
Early generations of search engines were much less refined that the ones we use today often consisting of simple web listings. One of the earliest search engines came about in 1990 and was written by Alan Emtage, it was Archie Query Form which was a tool for indexing FTP archives. This program allowed people to find various files from around the web.

One of the first search engines to function like many of the web search engines we see today was WebCrawler. It was similar to modern-day search engines in that it used an indexing system and website “crawling” algorithms in order to categorize websites.

One of the earliest major search engines to established was Yahoo. Created march 2nd 1995 the actual domain name Yahoo was registered on Jan 18th, 1995.

Search Engine Market


Currently in the United States, Google has the largest share of the search engine market followed by Bing and Yahoo