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The progress of the search

search engines

As we continue our journey through time, in order to better understand how search engines have evolved and how they work nowadays, we take the baton from the article under the title of “Search engines – The history of their evolution”, where we referred to some of the greatest scientists – pioneers of search engines […]

Search engines – The history of their evolution

Vannevar Bush

It was almost 20 years from the appearance of ARPANET until we had the first search engine. It was created by Alan Emptage and named “Archie” (from Archives). “Archie” was able to retrieve files from a database by matching the user’s query using  regular expressions Archie did not use keywords to find relevant files as […]