The History of Search and Search Technology - Important Search Engines
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Yahoo started as web directory in 1994 and outsourced their search until 2004. Google launched in 1996 and did not have a successful business model until 2001. Microsoft did not come on the search engine scene until 2003.
Some of the important search engines at this time included:
Excite
EINet Galaxy
WebCrawler
Lycos
Infoseek
AltaVista
Inktomi
Ask.com
AllTheWeb
For more information on search engine history, you may want to investigate Search Engine History, a site entirely devoted to this topic. It also touches on the history of search engine optimization. Additionally, Web Master World has an excellent thread that covers the history of SEO.
Web Interface
When you search using a web interface (like Google.com), in many cases results are already presorted to a certain extent. The degree to which results are presorted depends on the complexity of the algorithm. If the time to apply an algorithm to the index is considerable, then that algorithm is applied in advance. On the other hand, some algorithms are applied at the time when the search query is requested.
Search queries go through analysis to determine the possible intent behind the query. Google is currently leading in this area.
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