Securenext http://www.securenext.com Securenext Wed, 07 Mar 2012 22:56:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 A Brief History of Search Engines http://www.securenext.com/general/a-brief-history-of-search-engines http://www.securenext.com/general/a-brief-history-of-search-engines#comments Wed, 07 Mar 2012 22:56:09 +0000 admin http://www.securenext.com/general/a-brief-history-of-search-engines The history of search engines and the history of the Internet have been in parallel with one another as the rapid growth of the Internet necessitated a way to catalog the prodigious amount of information being created online.  The tool that was to catalog this information was the search engine.

The concept of hypertext and memory extension which can be seen as a basis of search engines can find its origins traced back to July 1945 in the form of an article by Vannevar Bush in the Atlantic Monthly.  As We May Think urged scientists to work together to build a body of knowledge that benefits all man-kind.  His idea was for a fast, limitless, reliable, extensible memory storage system and device that he called a memex.

1990

Archie, ‘archive’ without the ‘v’ was the first search engine.  It was an FTP site that hosted an index of downloadable directory listings.  Due to limited space, only listings were available.

1991

Veronica, or “Very Easy Rodent-Oriented Net-wide Index to Computer Archives” and Jughead or “Jonzy’s Universal Gopher Hierarchy Excavation And Display” searched file names and titles stored in Gopher index systems.  While this is a play on a famous comic strip, the initial Archie was not.

1992

VLib was part of the ‘World Wide Web‘ created by Tim Berners-Lee.  It consisted of webservers hosted at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research.

1993

World Wide Web Wander was a ‘bot’ or software that started by counting active web servers and ‘measures the growth’ of the Internet.  The software was later modified to capture web links.  It was created by Matthew Gray.

AliWEB, created by Martjin Koster crawled Meta Info and allowed the user to submit the pages  that they wanted indexed along with a description.  It was more of a directory than a bot and was challenging for users to submit their sites.

1993

This was the beginning of primitive web search.  Jumpstart contained information about a page’s title and header using simple linear search.  The World Wide Worm indexed titles and URLs, and the RBSE Spider was a ranking system.

1994

Infoseek enabled webmasters to submit a page in realtime.  In 1995, Netscape began using them as their default search.

AltaVista offered unlimited bandwidth and allowed natural language queries for the first time.  It also had advanced searching techniques and enabled submitters to add or delete their URL within 24 hours.  Google and Inktomi would later make their system irrelevant.  Overture intended to purchase AltaVista for $80 million in stock and $60 million in cash.  Overture was later bought by Yahoo.

WebCrawler was the first crawler that indexed entire web pages.  It was initially so popular that it was difficult to use in the daytime.  It was later bought out by AOL in 1995.

Yahoo, created by David Filo and Jerry Yang began as a collection of favorable web pages.  The directory’s size enabled it to eventually become a searchable directory that featured a manually-entered description of each URL.  Informational sites could be added for free but commercial sites could later be added for a fee.  A downfall of the manual review process is that it resulted in long wait times for prospective listings.  In 2002, Yahoo began working on their search engine again by buying up and integrating other search directories.  Prior to that, it had outsourced this work.

Lycos went public with a catalog of 54,000 documents that ranked Relevance retrieval.    By 1996, it had identified 60 milllion documents.  It was later sold to the largest search engine is South Korea. 

1996

Google, the largest and most popular search engine started by Larry Page and Sergei Brin, started as BackRub, a search engine which utilized backlinks for search.  It used citation ranking which means any mention on another site would count as vote toward the mentioned site.  The site’s authority and reliability came from how many people linked to the site and how ‘trustworthy’ those sites were.  In 1998 BackRub was renamed to Google.  Unable to sell the project, the team received funding from Sequoia and other investors.  Over the next couple of years, Google would go onto release other related things that would cement its leadership in the search space.  This includes the Google Toolbar, Adsense and more.

Inktomi: Hotbot also launched in 1996.  They were later acquired by Yahoo for $235 million.

1997

Ask.com/Ask Jeeves was a natural language search engine where human editors matched search queries.  In 2005, IAC buys Ask Jeeves for $1.85 billion and changes the name to Ask.com.

1998

MSN search launches relying on other search engine technologies until Google’s backlinks model could be proven sucessful.  in 2004, MSN previewed a new search engine using technology developed in-house that was released the following year.

Open Directory Project or DMOZ launched that was the largest directory run by volunteer editors.  It was bought by Netscape in the same year Netscape was purchased by AOL for $4.5 billion.

1999

AllTheWeb debuts with a sleek interface and advanced features.  It was eventually rolled into Yahoo search and shuttered in 2011.

Overture.com, formerly Goto.com is the first company to successfully provide a pay-per-click search service.  They eventually go on to buy AltaVista and AllTheWeb and are they, themselves purchased in 2003 by Yahoo to form the foundation of Yahoos pay-per-click program.

2006

Overture owner Bill Gross launches the Snap search engine.  It was proven to be too complicated for the average web-surfer and did not gain any traction.

Microsoft launches LiveSearch.

2008

Launched by former Google employees, CUIL has indexed 127 billion web pages as of February 2009 and closed its doors in 2010.  Its patents were acquired by Google in early 2012.

2009

MSN/LiveSearch rebranded by Microsoft into Bing.com.  

Next up, a Brief History of Social Networking.

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]]> http://www.securenext.com/general/first-post-via-social-surveyor/feed 0 A Brief History of the World Wide Web http://www.securenext.com/general/a-brief-history-of-the-world-wide-web http://www.securenext.com/general/a-brief-history-of-the-world-wide-web#comments Fri, 02 Mar 2012 18:10:06 +0000 admin http://www.securenext.com/general/a-brief-history-of-the-world-wide-web The World Wide Web (www) has often been used interchangeably with the Internet.  This is in fact, not correct.  The World Wide Web is a global information medium in which users can read and write via computers on the Internet.  It is a sub-set of the Internet much like email is.  

The history of the Internet predates the history of the Internet by several years.  Whereas the creation of the Internet can be traced back to 1969, the World Wide Web can trace its origin back to 1980 to Tim Berners Lee, an independent contractor working at CERN or the European Center for Nuclear Research.  Over the course of a ten year period, Tim Bermers-Lee addressed several different aspects of the presentation of data on the Internet.  By 1990, he had built all of the tools needed for a working web, HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) 0.9, the Hypertext MarkUp Language (HTML), the first web browser which was also the first HTML editor, called World Wide Web, the first web server software, the first web server, and the first web pages.  On August 6, 1991, Tim Berners-Lee posted a summary of his project on the alt.hypertext newsgroup.  This date also marks the debut of the Web as a public service on the Internet.

The turning point for the World Wide Web was the creation of the Mosaic browser, led by Marc Andreesen and Eric Bina, computer science students at the University of Illinois (UIUC).  After graduation, Marc Andreesen joined forces with James H Clark, former CEO of Silicon Graphics to form Mosaic Communications Corporation to develop the Mosaic browser commercially.  In 1994, the company changed its name to Netscape and released shortly thereafter went onto release the Netscape Navigator.  Marc Andreesen has gone on to become a very success entrepreneur and one of the most powerful investors in Silicon Valley.

In the late 90s, many of the leading global corporations went about establishing their web presence and the growth rate took off from there.  

Next up, the history of search engines.
]]> http://www.securenext.com/general/a-brief-history-of-the-world-wide-web/feed 0 A Brief History of the Internet http://www.securenext.com/general/a-brief-history-of-the-internet http://www.securenext.com/general/a-brief-history-of-the-internet#comments Wed, 29 Feb 2012 21:52:09 +0000 admin http://www.securenext.com/general/a-brief-history-of-the-internet The history of the Internet started in the 1950’s with the creation of the computer and the search for ways to connect or ‘network’ computers.  While there were several networks established in the 60s and 70s that sought to expand point-to-point communications between computers, it was ARPANET in particular that led to the development of internetworking, where multiple separate networks could be joined together to make a network of networks.

ARPANET, or Advanced Research Project Agency Network, was the first operational packet switching network and key component that would go on to become the global Internet.  The network was funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) of the United States Department of Defense that was used for its projects at universities and research laboratories in the United States.


In 1982, the Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP), a set of communication and networking protocols used for the Internet in other similar networks was standardized and the concept of a world-wide network of connected TCP/IP networks called the Internet was introduced.  In the mid-eighties and early nineties, Internet service providers (ISP), organizations that provide access to the Internet began to emerge.  


Since the mid-nineties, the Internet has had a huge impact on culture and commerce globally.  Tomorrow, I will write about the history of the World Wide Web to be followed by a history of search engines, search engine marketing, social networking websites and more till we arrive to the current trends.  From there, I will cover interesting things Internet and social media.  


Please let me know any ideas or suggestions that you would like for me to explore.

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I will be writing about this project, social media, and anything else that I think will be of interest to our clients going forward. 

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• Ability to understand Cross-Cultural differences quickly owing to the geographical nature of the sub-continent.
• Relating to the clients from various countries with proper written, spoken and neutral usage of the English Language.
• Ability to work long hours in a day and six days a week.
• Understanding the clients’ needs within a short time with limited communication channels.
• 24/7 preparedness on assisting the clients and quickly updating their preferences from time to time.
• Highly skilled programmers with sufficient formal education alone are hired.
• Experienced programmers work for lesser cost.
• Expertise in key programming languages.
• Quick updating of newer versions of software and programming languages.
• Delivery of work within proper set timeframe.
• Assured quality of work retained upon execution and delivery of work.
• Case Studies revealing positive results as majority.
• Transparency in recording failed services.
• Proper transparent utilization of resources provided by the client for the purposes of carrying out the intended work.
• Cost-effective human resources.
• Less of management issues for the clients to deal with as outsourcing reduces management headaches and costs.
• Allows for increased concentration on core, mainstream businesses of the clients.
• Increase in total revenue and profit due to cost-effective delivery of work.

These are some of the associated benefits and also are the reasons why Indian Programmers deserve good value. The value of Indian Programmers is still a cost-effective solution and would mean only the preference given to the Indian Programmers when compared to the rest of the world.

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]]> http://www.securenext.com/general/why-indian-programmers-deserve-good-value-in-software-industry/feed 0 Indian Software Industry and its evolving Service Capability http://www.securenext.com/indian-programmers/indian-software-industry-and-its-evolving-service-capability http://www.securenext.com/indian-programmers/indian-software-industry-and-its-evolving-service-capability#comments Sat, 03 Jul 2010 09:01:42 +0000 admin http://www.securenext.com/indian-programmers/indian-software-industry-and-its-evolving-service-capability The Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of the IT and the Software Development Industries is about 28-30% which has been consistently maintained for more than a decade. The growth of the Software Industry and its contribution to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of India has been phenomenal with the contribution towards the economy growing by leaps and bounds year after year.

The contribution of the Software Industry to the Gross Domestic Product of India and the Forex Revenues earned through Software Exports has been outstripping the revenue inflow of the other Industries. The growth of the Software and IT Sectors and their contribution towards the Gross Domestic Product of India are merely a single dimension of the entire growth and evolution of the Indian Software Development Industry.

In addition to this, clients of India operating from the United States and the Europe have witnessed huge satisfaction in terms of delivery of work, cost-effectiveness and the quality of work as is reiterated in all the corroborating reports, documents, case studies and surveys. The key clients of the Indian Software Industry based in the US and Europe contributes to the Industry for about 91% of the total revenue.

While, this remains so, the growth of the Industry in terms of technological advancements, human resources, infrastructural facilities, and projects undertaken will narrate different stories on the growth prospects of the Indian Software Industry and the growth that is attained so far. Clients such as Microsoft, SAP and IBM have all outsourced their high-end projects to India as their Offshore Software Outsourcing Destination.

Starting from the back-end services, routine, mechanical and allied services and the growth of the Indian Software Industry has given rise to an increase in the knowledge capital and hence, a gradual transition to the high-end services of Research, Analysis, Engineering Services and Software Development took place in the Indian Software Industry. This was gained on years of credibility as a reliable Offshore Outsourcing Destination to some of the major clients across the world, mainly based in the US and the European continent.

The kind of high-end services undertaken from some of the major players of the world and the contribution of the IT and Software Development Industry to the growth of the Indian Economy are testimony to the constant evolving of the Service Capability of the Indian Software Development Industry.

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It is the pride of each and every software professional of Tamil Nadu to work in the famous Tidel Park in Chennai. The State Government made a move at the right time to make the Software Industry flourish in the State. The IT Park is a vast expanse of 1.28 million square feet and has leading edge facilities to accommodate the top IT Companies of India.

It is located in Chennai City Proper with uninhibited road connectivity. The Tidel Park is aesthetically designed with centralized Air-Conditioning for the whole complex. Several Software, IT and Telecommunications Companies have been operating from the Tidel Park. Some of the top Multinational IT Giants have made use of the facilities and the infrastructure of the Tidel Park.

Recently, the Tidel Park slashed a huge part of the rent paid by companies based in the building to facilitate the growth of Software Companies based in Tidel Park. Alongside the number of companies in Tidel Park, it is also famous for the amenities and infrastructure such as the auditorium (with a capacity of 650 seats), food courts, cleanly maintained paid parking spaces, swimming pools, fitness centers etc.

This state-of-the-art IT premises is the single largest house of most of the IT and Software transactions taking place in Chennai. Even the realty sector prices are determined by the pricing of the Tidel Park office space. The role of Tidel Park in shaping the IT and Software Industry’s growth in Tamil Nadu is significant as the Tidel Park had almost become the face of the Tamil Nadu’s Software Industry.

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