How'd These Engines Get So Smart?

It's hard to believe, but not too long ago there was no such thing as a "seach engine". Internet users had to find the information they were looking for on their own. But around 1993, the first search engine came onto the scence, it was called W3Catalog and since then more and more search engines have became available to use to seach all areas of the internet. Some of the most popular search engines at the moment are Google, Yahoo! Search, and Bing.

Google is the most popular, and most used search engine of all of these. It hosts and develops several different internet based services and products. The way in which Google makes its profit is through advertisments. Google has become such a popular search engine and part of our culture that the word, or verb, "google" was actually entered into the Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary. Google retains billions of web pages that its users can get access to by using keywords and operators.

Yahoo! Search is another web search engine that is owned by Yahoo! Inc. According to Wikipedia, Yahoo! Search provides the ability to "veritcally search" which means that it searchs things outside the Web at large such as images, videos, local, shopping, Yahoo! Answers, audio, directory, jobs, news, mobile, travel and other services.

Bing is one of the newer search engines, it came onto the scene in 2009. One interesting thing about Bing is that it is available in countless languages. Bing has a lot of little features about it that the other search engines don't have that makes it appealing to people who pay attention to and appreciate the smaller details in products they use.

These are only 3 of many search engines available on the internet today. All of these search engines are great, it really depends on the user, what they are looking for, and their personal prefrences. I personally use Google for my search just because I have been using it for so long and I am very familiar with it. I find it easy to use and I always seem to get exactly what I'm searching for by using Google.