Google: The World’s Most Innovative Search Engine
“Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
As a first step to fulfilling that mission, Google's founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin developed a new approach to online search that took root in a Stanford University dorm room and quickly spread to information seekers around the globe. Google is now widely recognized as the world's largest search engine -- an easy-to-use free service that usually returns relevant results in a fraction of a second.” (Google)
Google’s creation of the world’s most comprehensive search engine ten years ago changed the face of the industry and the way people found information on the internet. The internet, itself has been around since the 1970s, but it was not until the 1980s when information became more accessible, but even still not to the standards we would have today. In his article B.G. (Before Google), Steven Vaughan-Nichols discusses the methods used for searching for information on the Web pre-Google. “It wasn't until the late 1980s that the Internet became searchable. For example, today, if you want to find a particular file, Google is your friend…When I started, we had to go through ftp file directories screen by screen and hope that the file was in there somewhere.” He mentions two, what now days we would consider primitive, search engines called Archie and Gopher. Archie came about in 1990 and allowed users to search through a site’s file directories. It was nothing more than a database of Web file names that could be accessed with a query. Archie didn’t necessarily always get the user what they wanted because the user had to have some kno ...