Why Search Engines Are Important?

The Web evolved beyond FTP archives not just by becoming a graphically rich multi-media world, but by developing tools which made it possible to find and access this richness. Long before there were browsers there was WAIS (released 1991), and the XWAIS version provided a user-friendly GUI way to find information. However, this system required servers to organize information according to a specific format. GOPHER, another information serving system with some user-friendliness, was released the same year. One of the earliest search engines like those today, Lycos, began in the spring of 1994 when John Leavitt's spider was linked to an indexing program by Michael Mauldin. Yahoo!, a catalog, became available the same year. Compare this to the appearance of NCSA Mosaic in 1993 and Netscape in 1994.

Today there are a score or more of "Web location services." A search engine proper is a database and the tools to generate that database and search it; a catalog is an organizational method and related database plus the tools for generating it. There are sites out there, however, that try to be a complete front end for the Internet. They provide news, libraries, dictionaries, and other resources that are not just a search engine or a catalog, and some of these can be really useful. Yahoo!, for example, emphasizes cataloging, while others such as Alta Vista or Excite emphasize providing the largest search database. Some Web location services do not own any of their search engine technology - other services are their main thrust. Companies such as Inktomi (after a native American word for spider) provide the search technology. These Web location services have put amazing power into every user's hands, making life much better for all of us.

EOY are search engines experts and we know how to place you where you want to be in them. Using our patented technology we can place you in the search engine in ways other companies just don't know how to. How can you be sure that EOY can do this for you? One word, "RESULTS", check out our proof page and see for yourself. We're sure you'll see why we say, "We bring the world to you!".

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