Today is my 20th anniversary of search and search engine coverage. To mark the occasion, I wanted to reflect on some of the big changes I've seen over the past two decades covering the space. 1. The search revolution Chances are the first resource you turn to Phone Number List if you have a question about something is a search engine, whether it's Google, Siri, Bing, Yelp, others, or a combination of services. This simple act, which you probably don't think twice about, was a very revolutionary change in the way people searched for information. Before the emergence of Phone Number List popular consumer-driven search engines just over 20 years ago, people got answers the same way they had for hundreds and thousands of years: largely by asking other people.
If you needed an answer, you turned to people like a teacher, a professional, a best friend, or a librarian. Of course, there were also tools to use: libraries, library catalogs, yellow pages and professional databases like LexisNexis. But for most people, getting many Phone Number List questions answered meant asking others. Enter the search engines, our new best friends who seemed to have an answer to everything we needed. They revolutionized the way we gather information in the Phone Number List same way the smartphone changed the way we communicate - but unlike the smartphone, research was a quiet revolution. Maybe it felt so natural to us that we didn't think we were impressed with the profound change it brought. If you have eight minutes and want to learn more about the search revolution,
Here's a TEDx talk I did on the subject a few years ago: 2. The Google Revolution Apple did not invent the smartphone. He just perfected the concept, creating a version that everyone wanted to emulate. Likewise, Google did not invent the search engine. Before it existed, we Phone Number List had several – popular and prominent ones like Open Text, InfoSec, WebCrawler, Lycos, Yahoo, AltaVista and Excite. google-us-map2-ss-1920 Google has perfected the search engine, or at least vastly improved what it could be. It proved that by analyzing how people connect to web pages, you can Phone Number List get search results that are both highly relevant and comprehensive. You can search popular and obscure topics and receive interesting answers. Google has also thrived on being a