Network information search has a short but exciting history. Let’s look at some trendsetters and heroes of search and try to see where this whole thing is going.

1) 1990 - Archie . Created by a few students at McGuill University in Montreal and designed to search for scientific documents. Archie was originally a local tool that grew to become network services based on FTP protocol. It has a trawler, index database and a search interface. Important limitation - it could only search for document titles.
Actually, you can still check it out. There is one that takes your search query and returns the list of results via e-mail. Neat!

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