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Gerard Salton was the father of modern search technology.. Gerard Salton wrote a book titled A Theory of Indexing. His book explains many tests on which search engines are still based on today. The first search engine to be created was called Archie. Archie was created by a McGill University student named Alan Emtage in 1990. Archie became a database of Internet file names. When a user would search for something it would match the query with the file names. By 1993 three major bot search engines were on the Internet. A bot is a program that performs repetitive tasks at speeds that are too fast for humans to perform automatically. The three bot search engines were JumpStation, the World Wide Web Worm, and the Repository-Based Software Engineering spider. These search engines were difficult to use because if you did not know exactly what you were looking for it was hard to find it. The most used search engine currently, Google, was launched in 1998 by two Stanford students Larry Page and Sergey Brin. At the end of Google’s first year the search engine had over 60 million websites in their index. It was already known as one of the better search engines over competitors like Yahoo!, Hotbot, Netscape, and others. By 2004 Google had over 84.7 percent of all searches. Since its start in 1998 Google has added several features to its search engine besides just searching the Internet. Today on Google you can search pictures, videos, maps, and several other things.
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