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It's been a little more than ten years ago that the first web search engines were born. Chris Sherman charts the dates starting with WWW Wanderer in 1993. (September 9, 2003) |  | The History of 404
The story behind HTTP/1.1 404 Object Not Found, and Room 404 at CERN. Wait for the real page to load. |  | The Internet: Past, Present and Future: Internet and WWW History
Scholarly article by Jesper Vissing Laursen on the development of the Internet. |  | The Morris Internet Worm
Charles Schmidt and Tom Darby explain the what, why, and how of the 1988 Internet worm. |  | The Role of Government in the Evolution of the Internet
Robet E. Kahn's contribution to "Revolution in the U.S. Information Structure", published in 1994 by the National Academy of Sciences. |  | The Story of the PING Program
Brief article about this network utility, written by its creator, Mike Muuss. |  | The World Wide Web History Project
A collaborative effort to record and publish the history of the World Wide Web and its roots in hypermedia and networking. |  | World Wide Web Journal
Published from the winter of 1996 thru the fall of 1997. All issues online, including the Fourth International World Wide Web Conference Proceedings. |  | World-Wide Web: Origins And Beyond
Lenny Zeltser describes some of the historical aspects of World-Wide Web development, as well as other forms of hypertext such as Xanadu. |  | Yahoo! Netrospective: 10 years, 100 moments of the Web
Yahoo!'s picks of the top 100 moments from the first 10 years of the Internet. Inspired by 10x10 by Jonathan Harris. |
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02/07/2012
Blogger.com Captures Musings Market
Fresh from SEM | Antics Labs, the results of a minutes-long research project.While it doesn't have the majority, at just over 6 million, Blogger certainly owns the plurality of Internet musings, coming in at just under 14% of total. In the following figure, the top portion is pulled from a site-specific search, and the bottom portion is pulled from the general Google index:Typepad shows a rather
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02/07/2012
The Rocket-Science Motives behind Google Base
"We view the integration of Google Base and conventional search results as a means to drive traffic to Google Base."--Piper Jaffray stock analyst Safa RashtchyHmm... Search results as traffic driver? If only we'd thought of that.
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02/07/2012
Finally ... Danny Sullivan's Salary Exposed
In what we figure is fair turnabout for Search Engine Watch discussing the salaries of SEMs (based on the ClickZ article of the same name), Alan Meckler decided he'd tell us exactly what Danny's bringing home:more money than most CEOs throughout the world.Alan's never been one to put too fine a point on it.
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02/07/2012
Yahoo Scrambles to Bring Back Steve Rubel
Sunnyvale, CA -- In a surprise move today, search giant and internet information portal Yahoo! restated its business goals for 2006. The company's new prime directive?Bring back Steve Rubel.Due to Yahoo's stunning admission that they're content with being #2 in search, media blogger Steve Rubel declaredThat's it, I am no longer using Yahoo Search. I have no interest in using a product that the
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02/07/2012
SEO Phrases Co-Opted by Porn Industry
In his cautionary tale "Bush Administration Demands Search Data...," Danny asks an astute question:Do you know every variation of a term someone might use, that you're going to dig out of the hundreds of millions of searches you'd get? [...] If you do, from talking with the head of a child porn fighting group in the UK, my understanding is that many euphemisms and code words are used that won't
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