SEO Evolutionary Timeline

SEO origins date back to early days of computing...

1970's Very first database systems. These are still around in what's called the "Matrix". As carl Malamud says "...Superset of all interconnected networks.

1980's Manual FTP Navigation. Users would search screen by screen and would need to have prior knowledge where to look.

1990's Advancements in Searches went from no search to searching by film name and text. Archie, Veronica & Gopher were the first versions of what we have today for search engines.

• Archie - Search through a site's file directly. (Requires prior knowledge of which site)

• Veronica - Search for a plain text file on a site.

• Gopher - Search through online databases & text files
  

January, 1994 (28 Years Ago) Yahoo Founded - A human edited web directory January 18, 1995 (27 Years Ago) Yahoo.com domain registered.

January, 1996 (26 Years Ago)

"Google" starts as a research program. Namely, "PageRank" was created; a system used by Google and still used today to an extent for determining position of webpages.

September 15, 1997

google.com domain registered.

September 4, 1998

Google Founded

2000's

January 3, 2000 Yahoo stock price at all-time high of $118.75/share June 26, 2000 Yahoo retains Google as the default world wide web search engine for yahoo.com

August 19, 2004 Google now public. Opened with 19.6M Shares at $85/share

November 13, 2006 Google acquires YouTube for $1.65B in Google stock.

March 11, 2008 Google Acquire "DoubleClick" for $3.1B. An online advertisement company. 2010's

2011 3 Billion searches daily average May 2011 Google's Monthly unique visitors surpasses 1 billion

2012 - 2022 Google continually makes key acquisitions:

• Waze

• Nest

• FitBit

• HTC

> Mandiant - Cyber Security > Looker - Big Data & Analytics > Raxium - AR Hardware

2020's

Closing thoughts & Rants:

The next move that will take place and transform the digital age will be the "Metaverse". Everyday we see a topic about the Metaverse and we see large corporations taking action towards developing the Metaverse. This is shown simply by how social media platforms are bundled together. Googles acquisition of Raxium is a display of moving towards developing Metaverse technology and shape their version of what the meta will be.

They have the the Data (Android and Search Engine), they have the Hardware and Automations (HTC & FitBit to name a few),. along with the network infrastructure (Google Fiber, Motorola Mobility etc...). The 2020's will be leaps and bounds in technological advancements along with how much this is connected with our daily lives. After all, most EV manufacturers are utilizing their respective apps on peoples smartphones as their "primary" key. Technology is already an integral part of most of our lives already, let's see what the meta has in store for everyone!