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Do you want to cook something new for your family? Search the Internet for the best recipe available.Want to buy a product, and you are not sure of the right price? An on line easy, rapid search will surely provide the answer. Got a new boyfriend or girlfriend? Google its name, you never know what you might find... pictures, on line profiles, lots of lots of infos, in other times available to you after countless dates!

Once the Internet era, everything changed in the way we look and gain access at informations. We can share our experienced and find valuable data in practically no time at all, all in the comfort of our homes or offices. As WWW inventor once said, "the dream behind the Web is of a common information space in which we communicate by sharing information".

The on line space offers a large amount of information, invisible inter-connected by links. A person can practically have access to anything, can find the response to any question. But the harder thing to do, considering the huge amount of website, pages, data, is to know were to start in your search, so you will gain access to relevant infos on your particular need.

So it is no wonder that the next thing in the www evolution is the apparition of search engines, tools to help the user find what he is interesting in. At least with a certain amount of shyness, building only lists of URLs, the on line searching tools evolved over the years, with the goal of optimization the search for millions of users all over the world.

In 1994, the World Wide Web Worm (an early searching tool) had approx 1500 requests a day. Three years later, Altavista reported over 20 millions. So you can see the exponential growth in popularity for the on line information medium and search engines.

With the growth of the Internet, with the media boom, the search engines had also to evolve in rapid rhythm, to keep up with the new things available, and also to be able to cope with the growing amount of data that needs to be processed. And as always the challenge is not only giving relevant results on searching, but providing them in a very short time.

Let's see how the search engine evolution looked like:

* the first search engine appeared in 1990, a very basic tool called Archie (from 'archives'), created by Alan Emtage

* in 1991, a new tool was created: 'Gopher', programmed by Mark McCahill, for indexing text documents. He was seconded by 'Veronica' (Very Easy Rodent-Oriented Net-wide Index to Computerized Archives) and Jughead

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