|
As the spread of the Internet and the Web took off exponentially, its use as
a social magnet grew with it. People – mostly students - began to create
pages of links to other web pages that interested them, so that friends and colleagues
could share them easily.
David Filo and Jerry Yang were two Ph.D. candidates at Stanford University
who started their guide to web sites in a campus trailer in February 1994 to keep
track of their personal interests. It wasn’t long before they spent more
time on the list of web site links than on their doctoral dissertations. As the
lists grew, they broke them into categories, then subcategories. At this point,
the web site that started out as Jerry’s Guide to the World Wide Web was
renamed Yahoo!
with the help of a dictionary. While some say Yahoo! stands for Yet Another Hierarchical
Officious Oracle, Filo and Yang insist it was simply named after them –
a couple of “yahoos” as the dictionary stated: “Rude, unsophisticated,
uncouth.”
Word of Yahoo! spread quickly and in the fall of 1994, the
site had its first million-hit day, representing almost 100,000 unique visitors.
Here is a growing archive of the search engine history:
- 2003
– Microsoft redux
- 2001 – Goodbye GoTo, hello
Overture
- 2000 – Some Web expertise
- 1999 – A winning
search concept
- 1999 – Now that’s fast!
- 1998 – Its a hit! DirectHit
- 1998 –
And in the other corner... MSN
- 1998 – And
in this corner… Google
- 1998
– The Open (source) Directory Project
- 1997 –
Ask Jeeves, the butler did it
- 1997 – GoTo,
What do I bid?
- 1996 – LookSmart
– the Australian connection
- 1996 – HotBot,
one hot bot!
- 1995/96 –
The Northern Light
|
- 1995 – AltaVista
- 1995 –
The Meta-search
- 1994-95 –
InfoSeek
- 1994 – Lycos
- 1994 –
The WebCrawler
- 1994 – Yahoo!
- 1994 – A Galaxy
of web pages
- 1993 – The
birth of Excite
- 1993
- The Web’s oldest existing search engine
- 1993 – The
first web robot
- 1993 - Archie’s
pal, Jughead
- 1993
- Veronica, the grandmother of search engines
- 1989
- Archie, the grandfather of all search engines
|
SalientMarketing is Search Engine Marketing and Market Research Firm.
Our staff of marketing and technology professionals deliver services that maximize
the return on investment (ROI) for online and offline marketing
initiatives. Our process of implementation is rooted in upfront research followed
by a measurement of success, ensuring that our strategies are on target and
exceed expectations. It's all about taking the guesswork of business success.
>> Click here for our list
of services or solutions that we provide
|
