| Tuesday, February 01, 2005 |
| Search Engines... |
At McGill University in Canada, one of its practitioners, a student named Alan Emtage, was busy developing a program that would enable people to find documents on the embryonic computer network known as the internet. He wanted to call it Archives, but the system he was using didn't allow names that long, so the first-ever search engine had to be called Archie instead.
Google. The California-based company, founded in 1998 by the Stanford students Larry Page and Sergey Brin, revolutionized the concept of searching.
A9, the search facility attached to the website of the bookseller Amazon.com, allows visitors to search the text and footnotes of books - real books, made of paper - before committing to purchasing them.
Science, in fact, will come to be measured as the expansion of our ignorance, rather than an expansion of our knowledge.
Google continues to be the market leader, and now commands around 42% of all internet searches.
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