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 late 1970s, Indexer #1 was a precursor to the sophisticated algorithms we rely today. It delved through vast amounts of text data, assembling an index that co