Search Engine History

Back in 1990, the Conseil Europeen pour la Recherche Nucleaire (CERN) hosted a complete listing of all the webservers around the world along with Tim Berners-Lee as their editor. It was started with a proposal created by Tim Berners Lee to CERN or is better known as the European Organization in Nuclear Research, which was a project called ENQUIRY and later the world first ever website was born. Dated on the 16th of August 1991, the first website that went online was introduced by Tim Berners-Lee where he used it to explain on what the World Wide Web is all about, how people could own a browser and how a Web server can be set up.

Just after two years, the first web robot and search engine were created to replace the old webserver listing. In the beginning, Matthew Gray wanted to measure how big and how well did the web grow, so he numbered all the active web servers by creating a bot. Soon he upgraded his bot to capture real Uniform Resource Locator (URL) using a web crawler named the World Wide Web Wanderer and was later called the Wandex search engine.

Due to the poor efficiency of the Wanderer, a 'full-text' crawler was founded because they could give a better result and easier for others to index their sites instead of the earlier crawler where they are limited to find only the page's title. Search engine keeps growing until today and we have the three most used search engine by Internet users, the Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft Live Search, where Google is the topmost of them, showing the most effective searched results.