Most of us remember when the internet was basically just clicking through thousands of indexed links on Yahoo! until you found something interesting. You could still discover a lot of things, but at that time we didn’t even know what we were searching for. The internet wasn’t a place you came to with a question, it was a place you came to just to look around.
And then the search engine came along.
But it wasn’t like one day it just showed up and we all started looking up whether that spot on our shoulder could be melanoma. Figuring out how to get a computer to understand search queries was a huge challenge, not to mention indexing all those web pages.
Someone had to get things started, even if it was rudimentary at first. What was the first search engine?
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The answer is: Archie. Archie was first released in 1990 and marked the first ever search engine to go online. But it was pretty limited, as it was intended only for FTP sites, which were used mostly just to exchange large files. It wasn’t until Webcrawler came online in 1994 that indexing pages actually started happening, and from there the search engine as we know and love it today.Source
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