INDEXER #1: THE GENESIS OF SEARCH SPRANG

Before the days of Google and Bing, before even AltaVista{, there was Indexer #1, a revolutionary program that forged the path for modern search engines. Created by researchers at MIT in the early 1990s, Indexer #1 functioned as a precursor to the sophisticated algorithms we depend on today. It crawled through vast amounts of text data, building a