Chapter 3 - Search Before Google

I found Chapter 3 extremely interesting because it provides the history of search engines. I have a basic knowledge of the history of the internet, as an educational tool to link information from different schools together, but I never realized that search existed this far back. The first two were called Archie and Veronica.

Moving further, I was fascinated by the fact that AltaVista.com is considered by Battelle to be the first really good search engine for the modern web. He called it "the Google of its time". I can't even remember the last time I visited AltaVista and I use Google multiple times a day. It is interesting to think of how quickly AltaVista went from the leader to not even being a household name. I can almost guarantee all high schoolers know of Google, and a very little percentage of them have even heard of AltaVista. AltaVista's demise came quickly because of poor management and a even worse business plan. It points out how special Google's executive decisions must be.