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Posted:  29 Jun 2008 01:09

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The World Wide Web was first invented in 1990 at this stage you could read the contents of the internet within an hour and no search engines were needed.  Obviously as more data was added the need for search engines arose.  Many people wonder where SEO originated from more commonly it was in 1996 although a small degree of SEO originated in America previously.  The internet has not been around for long and Broadband wasn’t invented and didn’t have large download speeds on a 56k modem.

The knowledge of the internet came about when Alta Vista was the main search engine and Google was merely a concept in the UK.  Alan Emtage was the first student to create the first search facility back in 1990.  It was known as Archie and is still in use today at http://archie.emnet.co.uk The following year Gopher an alternative to Archie was also created.  This was when the concept of search engines caught on.  It was in 1994 that the search engines we recognize today were created.  In 1994 Galaxy, Lycos and Yahoo were all created.

Then in 1994 companies began playing with the concept of SEO with the emphasis on submission progress.  Within the first year the first automated submission software packages were made available.  It was in 1994 that Mosaic was released and dial up internet access became available and at an affordable price.
 
At the end of 1995 a lot of significantly named search engines were available amongst which were Magellan, Infoseek, and Excite.  Obviosuly the internet has grown swiftly in those years to what we know it as today.  There are many search engines available today and technology is far advanced.  I am sure all those years ago people such as; Alan Emtage had no idea how the internet and search engines would advance to such informative and technological advanced systems that we now have. 

It is thanks to people like Alan Emtage that we have the internet along with search engines.  There is no possible way we could read the information on the internet within an hour today.  I doubt if we are still here a year later we would be able to read all the information.  People are adding information all the time and constantly updating data to a stage where it would be impossible to read everything on the internet within a given time limit.
Posted:  26 Jul 2008 03:43

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OK. Google didn't come out of the UK, it came out of the USA as a PhD project at Stanford that built on ideas already in practice. Sergey Brin and Larry Page believed they could develop a superior mathematical formula that would find and retrieve information more quickly and accurately than human memory or anything else currently being used.

And if we're going to do a history on the Internet, we can't leave out ARPANET.

Read "The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed our Culture" and also read "The Google Story."

Also, SEO became popular as a business because of the porn industry. The porn industry figured out, in the early going, that if you had a website and you stuffed keywords into it, people searching for something through a search engine would find the website.

I agree, too, that it is impossible for anyone to read all the information on the Web. And that search engines help in sorting through the muck. Once the semantic Web becomes more of a reality, it'll be even easier and more efficient to find information the Web.
Posted:  27 Jul 2008 00:28

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Well then, that's a lot of information in both of those posts. Thanks guys.


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