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- theadvinci, on 12/17/2008, -4/+11Search has evolved... but can it find Waldo?
- vic42482, on 12/17/2008, -1/+7Yeah. One fairly simple idea - and now Google is the biggest company in the world. I'm gonna go and think of something.
- yanksn6, on 12/17/2008, -0/+4Cool run down. Its just crazy thinking how different or should I say better things are now compared to then.
- amroyce, on 12/18/2008, -0/+4It's amazing how the internet and with it the search engines have evolved. This is a great account of the evolution.
- Myztry, on 12/18/2008, -0/+4(Hyper) linking of pages wasn't a new concept.
Australia had the national dial-up Viatel service from 1985. It was very similar to the what you see on Teletext TV's (as that was the display mode) except pages were fetched on demand, and were either static or generated on demand.
Each page (40x24 characters) contained a hidden 25th line. That 25th line contained 10 page links (selected using numeric keys) to allow you to browse to other pages. The URL's equivalents were just 3 digit page numbers.
There was live online Australia wide chat (Microtex 666 - on page 666 of course - 5c a message). Software downloads. Online banking via gateways.
There was even rudimentary graphics (as per Telext block graphics). I first accessed it via a Commodore 64 using a 'blackbox' Viatel cartridge with inbuilt modem, and later on a 286 PC under DOS.
It was many years later before Trumpet Winsock (Win 3.1 TCP/IP stack) and Netscape Navigator came on the scene.
/nostalgia - jhuik, on 12/18/2008, -0/+3Because it waters down Google results with Yahoo results, Chunkit is a "game changer." My morning chuckle - thanks.
- ThirdPrize, on 12/18/2008, -0/+3It's not evolution, it's "Intelligent Design" with Google playing the role of God.
- inactive, on 12/18/2008, -0/+3"Before the web became the multi-billion page monstrosity that it is today"
The best part of the article. - inactive, on 12/18/2008, -0/+3Reminds me of
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19726482.100 ... - digggggggggg, on 12/19/2008, -0/+2Google is the biggest company in the world now? I think you forgot a qualifier there.
- KMye, on 12/18/2008, -0/+2ha ha..I did #7 for part time work in high school...infoseek was fun to play with
- Mujokan, on 12/18/2008, -0/+2I thought of something the other day, but now I can't remember what it was. It was great, though.
- svivian, on 12/18/2008, -0/+1http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&q=wald ...
- rowjimmy, on 12/18/2008, -0/+1http://www.powerset.com
that particular example doesn't currently work, but powerset generally pushes for a better semantic & pragmatic understanding of search
(spam disclaimer - i work for them :) ) - astyguy, on 12/18/2008, -0/+1so Social networking sites with search = death of google ....
- Myztry, on 12/19/2008, -0/+1But my children could answer that question at 3 to 4 years of age...
- shipwreck58, on 12/18/2008, -1/+2AltaVista > All other Search Engines
- Myztry, on 12/18/2008, -0/+1Search still isn't context aware. Just dumb keywords. You still can't use "Queen's son" to search for a Prince as an example.
- Arwin101, on 12/18/2008, -1/+2So So ending, but not bad
- Frankie4Fingers, on 12/19/2008, -0/+1The one they forgot about was Webcrawler. Altavista was my choice way back when too.
- ihatesubway, on 12/22/2008, -0/+1Always looking for alternative search engines and tools... but it's like cell phones. Every time you get a new one, a better version comes out weeks later..
- digggggggggg, on 12/19/2008, -0/+1Come to think of it, whatever happened to that POS "better than google" search engine Cuil anyway?
- JFitzGaynard, on 01/30/2009, -0/+0A very useful overview.
John
http://johngaynardcreativity.blogspot.com - kettlewell, on 12/19/2008, -0/+0Reminds me of Ask Jeeves - Used to be able to ask a question in any way, and it would find an answer for you.
