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Excerpt: Introduction Although Google celebrated its tenth birthday only a few months ago. Search engines have existed in one form or another since 1990. It is interesting to see how search engines have evolved to cope with with the exponential growth of the internet. Archie The first search engine was called Archie written by Alan Emtage.  At this time the World Wide Web was in development. It was an FTP search engine and gathered its data by logging on to the sites that it knew about and indexed the data. A similar protocol to FTP called Gopher also spawned its own search engines, called…