The Origin Of The Species Of Search Engines, Part 1
Search engines have revolutionized the way that we use computers. Instead of data being a bunch of files in an archive that requires file cards to look up, data is extremely versatile and constantly at the tips of our fingers. If you want a document that you wrote a few weeks ago, you only have to remember a few of the words that you used to be able to search for it across your whole hard drive. It is easy to take this convenience for granted, until you consider what the alternative would be tedious systems of archival.
The first true search engine was called Archie. It was coded in 1990 by a student. The program would go through all of the files on a particular sites, and scour them for information used for directories. Then it would save all of this information, and turn it into a database of files. This database was easily searched using Archie. Archie was not known to the public, but created lots of excitement in the world of computer science.
The next important advance in search engines was the Gopher program. Archie had a weakness that Mark McCahill noticed, and that was that it only searched...
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