The evolution of search – from Archie to sophisticated marketing channel
Internet users have a lot to thank ‘Archie’ for. Archie was the world’s first search engine, developed by McGill University student Alan Emtage in 1990.
Archie was an index (or archive) of computer files stored on FTP websites in a network of computers but without the natural language keyword capabilities used in modern search engines.
Both web directories and search engines gained popularity in the 90s with search engines soon becoming the preferred method of internet search. The major search engines today originated in development between 1993 and 1998 (Google, by far the world’s biggest engine, was launched in 1997) and have Read full story ›
Source: The Drum
