Search engines - Development and Outlook

Development: Around the mid-'90s, the first search engines. The Internet and the World Wide Web had already at this time reached a size that the user is almost impossible, the information sought by him immediately to find.

With the first search engine was WebCrawler, Lycos and Alta Vista. Long time, the meta-search engine AltaVista, also one of the first commercial search engines, the market leader in its field. Today, however, there are almost no meta search engine, which successfully claim.

1998 developed Larry Page and Sergey Brin, were still students, a separate search engine. A simple, almost simplistic user interface and a previously unprecedented search speed were the basis for the later success of the search engine Google. It also used these algorithms and ranking criteria, which is not previously known. One of these criteria is the so-called PageRank.

Quick also saw Yahoo and MSN, two other search services that the new search technology of the search engine Google would prevail. As Larry Page and Sergey Brin are now all but patented techniques were, they did nothing other than to shop at Google. Today, even if a Yahoo meanwhile, has developed its own algorithm is the search engine Google absolute leader. Its market share is, take the search engine added, which is also the Google index, over 90%. Yahoo and MSN and Windows Live follow in the squares 2 and 3 They fail, at least in Germany, are much to the 5 percent hurdle ...

Outlook: Whether Google itself in the future as a market leader can say, it is impossible to say. That AltaVista today hardly anyone knows, would even a few years ago no one thought possible. Google could just as quickly a new technology developed soft. From one day to another, this can hardly happen. Google sees it, as no other company, to market itself. The key word is `branding '. Google is not just a search engine long ago, but a company, which in almost all sectors expanding. These include e.g. The special search services Froogle, Google Maps, Google News, the discussion forum Google Groups, an e-mail service (GMail), or communities like blogger.com or Orkut, a Personals. In addition, Google offers free software, such as Google Desktop, or the image editing program Picasa.

The main idea behind what these and many other new developments is, is simple. The name Google is gaining more and more in importance. There will be no more long sought, but only `gegoogelt '.

The search engine of tomorrow, we will by voice a search request. Likewise, it once they own all the relevant results and evaluated, with its own voice respond. This may, however, still take decades. Although there are already attempts and first results, but the language in context is much too complex than it really would be useful. Here are the problems clearly, the future development of a search engine must.

Apart from the ambiguity of many keywords or different grammar, above all, the rapidly growing amount of data a major problem to arise daily one million new websites, and many other websites are updated daily. Experts from these reasons, assume that the search engine of the future on specialized databases. In addition, the personalized and regionally driven search (Personalized Search and Geo-targeting) is always more important. So can not only save important resources, the search for the user is also simpler and clearer, because the search engine will be together with him `learn '...