The Search Engine experience

I actually enjoyed learning about search engines because it's something we use every day. It's cool to see how it works and how Google/Yahoo/Bing/Whatever determines how your website is ranked. Scott Bothel came into our class explaining that websites generally rank websites by these factors:

• Back links
• Quality of work within the site
• Key words (at least they used to be relevant with search engines)
• A couple other smaller things

We then had to create our own sample webpage, which I did here.

Internet history response

Before the internet came around, important files were kept on single peices of paper in select places. That was a problem because if those peices of paper got burned, the files would be lost.

Enter the Internet.

The internet essentially linked multiple computer together so they could share information. So if one computer had a bomb drop on it (this was the Cold War times) and lost it's information, the other computers would have that same information. This was the purpose of the internet... not for long.

Eventually a couple of univercitys started using this "Internet", mainly to share information. But unfortunutally for the common American, the internet wasn't avadible until the mid 80's, which is when the internet and computers in general started taking off. The number of people on the internet increased exponentially, swelling to 1,136,000 by 1992.

During the 1980's, a man invented HTML, which allowed computers to locate webpages more easily. Computers were evolving fast, mainly to keep up with the expansion of the Internet.