The World wide web was born in November 1990, with the launch of first web server (web page) hosted at the CERN research facility in Switzerland.

By the early 1993, the stage was set for the web explosion. In February of that year the first alpha release of the NCSA Mosaic Graphical browser provided a client application that, but the end of the year, was available on all major desktop computing platforms.

The Netscape browser, based on Mosaic was released in 194. By this time dial-up internet access had become readily available and was cheap. The web was taking off!

Even though the combination of cheap dial up internet connection and the mosaic browser had made the web semi popular, there was no way to search the growing collection of hypertext document available online.

The first automated webcrawler or robo, was the World wide web wanderer created by MIT student Mathew Gray.

Martin Koster created the first web directory. ALIWeb in late 1993, but it, like the wanderer, met with limited success.

1994 was a big year in the history of web search. The first hierarchical directory Galaxy, was launched in January and, in April Satndford students David Filo and Jerry Yang created ‘Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle'., better known as YAHOO.

During the same month, Brian Pinkerton at the University of Washington released WebCrawler. This is the first true web search engine, indexed the entire content of the web pages, where previous crawlers had indexed little more than page titles, headings and URLs. Lycos was launched a few months later.

In the year 1995 innumerous search engines were launched. AltaVista the fastest search engine was launched in December 1995

Google formally launched in 1999 and changes the way search engine work, function and earn revenues. Since 2001, Google has acquired several organizations to expand its milieu of services.