What is the Googles
Search Engine, and why are they important in the world
of Search Engines and Directories?
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| Sergey Brin, Co-founder of Google and Jim Boykin. |
Brief History. In early 1998
at Stanford University Sergey Brin and Lawrence
Page wrote a paper called
The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web
Search Engine. Back then there were about
20 major search engines and portals, with Yahoo leading the
way.
Yahoo has always had about 1/3 of all search traffic, and
in 2002 Google surpassed Yahoo in percent of searches on the
web.
Then Google contracted with AOL to
provide the results to AOL searches....and
then the biggie...in October 2002
Yahoo defaulted to showing Google
Result. To explain that simply...you
used to be able to do a search on
Google, then go to Yahoo and perform
that same search, and you would see
they're the same results.
In February 2004 Yahoo stopped using
Google results and switched over to
using Inktomi results.
