Search engine (Archie, WebCrawler, AltaVista)
Motor de búsqueda (Archie, WebCrawler, AltaVista)
- Date
- 1990-1995 · confidence high
- Place
- McGill University, Montreal, Canada (Archie); DEC, Palo Alto (AltaVista, 1995)
- Credited to
- Alan Emtage (Archie, 1990); Brian Pinkerton (WebCrawler, 1994); Louis Monier (AltaVista, 1995)
- People
- 👤 Alan Emtage1964–👤 Brian Pinkerton👤 Louis Monier1956–
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
Programs that automatically crawl and index the contents of the network so they can be retrieved by keyword. They made a catalogue-less, ever-growing internet navigable.
What it led to
- Google and the search-advertising business
- Instant access to knowledge and dependence on it
- SEO and the fight for online visibility
Built on
- World Wide Web1989-1991
- FTP
- information retrieval (Salton)
Made possible
- PageRank and Google1998
- search engine advertising
- SEO