Sunday, December 17, 2006

Who invented first Search Engine?

Histroically, if we examin our past, there is a possiblity that people might have invented some sort of Search Engine after inventing language and may be after inventing big collection of words and documents which is called book. If we take any modern book, there is a Search Engine attached to that !!! Really!!!
Generally, if we go to the Index section of the book, it shows the list of important words and what pages those are occured on that book in alphabatical order. It is a paper version of a Search Engine. For example , if you want to find the reference of word "Newton" in a physics book, the index section helps you to go to that page quickly.

Then there came the strange technology called Internet. Internet is a interlinked network of computer kind of devices which can made to cooperate with each other to do anything. At the same time it still has a kind of book legacy to it too. A simple person , sees the power of Internet in Web pages. Note the page word which is like a book page. So, the current search engines tries to find the web pages for the given word/words. And the search engine industry tries to improve this page indexing technique each day.

But just remember, Internet is not a BOOK. Internet is more complex. It is used for different things. Each day people are inventing different things which can be plugged in to this great thing called Internet to do different magics. I want to call those magics as Services. Service means serving other people or other entity.
Most of the time , service cann't be described in a single word. But, it can be described by what it does. The current rise of Web 2.0 means , internet is going to have more and more services than book like documents .
If this is the reality, then we should have a Search Engine which indexes the Service than the wordly part of the internet.

But how to index the service. Service is a invisible thing for web crawlers. Web crawlers can digest words but not the nature of the service. But if we don't index the Internet in terms of service, then we are not indexing the internet, but we are just indexing the book side of the Internet.

So, with that struggle in my mind , I started a web site called http://www.commandengine.com/
which can index the services of the Interent. For futher information about service indexing , visit the web site.

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