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This timeline covers within-site or within-app search as used by websites ranging from large content repositories (such as Wikipedia, Reddit, or Imgur) to e-commerce websites (such as Amazon and Target) to two-sided markets (such as eBay and Airbnb) to social media sites. The timeline includes key conceptual developments, new tools and technologies, and services (both cloud services and installable softwares) that power the search experiences.
 
This timeline covers within-site or within-app search as used by websites ranging from large content repositories (such as Wikipedia, Reddit, or Imgur) to e-commerce websites (such as Amazon and Target) to two-sided markets (such as eBay and Airbnb) to social media sites. The timeline includes key conceptual developments, new tools and technologies, and services (both cloud services and installable softwares) that power the search experiences.
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| 2010 || February || Launch || Search software || Shay Banon releases the first version of [[wikipedia:Elasticsearch|Elasticsearch]].<ref name="initversion">{{cite web|last=Banon|first=Shay|title=You Know, for Search|url=http://www.elasticsearch.org/blog/2010/02/08/youknowforsearch.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116045454/http://www.elasticsearch.org/blog/2010/02/08/youknowforsearch.html|archivedate=2013-01-16|date=2010-02-08}}</ref> This is a successor to Compass, released in 2004, and is based on Lucene.
 
| 2010 || February || Launch || Search software || Shay Banon releases the first version of [[wikipedia:Elasticsearch|Elasticsearch]].<ref name="initversion">{{cite web|last=Banon|first=Shay|title=You Know, for Search|url=http://www.elasticsearch.org/blog/2010/02/08/youknowforsearch.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116045454/http://www.elasticsearch.org/blog/2010/02/08/youknowforsearch.html|archivedate=2013-01-16|date=2010-02-08}}</ref> This is a successor to Compass, released in 2004, and is based on Lucene.
 
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| 2012 || || Launch || Search as a service || Site search tool [[wikipedia:Swiftype|Swiftype]] is launched by former [[wikipedia:Scribd|Scribd]] employees Matt Riley and Quin Hoxie. The founders claim that the service is better than Google Site Search because, rather than simply restricting Google results to a specific site, it builds a "PageRank"-like model that is specific to the site, and also allows publishers control through mechanisms like pinning and unpinning.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://techcrunch.com/2012/05/08/swiftype-launch/|title = Y Combinator-Backed Swiftype Builds Site Search That Doesn’t Suck|last = Ha|first = Anthony|date = May 8, 2012|accessdate = May 28, 2017|publisher = ''[[wikipedia:TechCrunch|TechCrunch]]''}}</ref>
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| 2012 || || Launch || Search as a service || Site search tool {{w|Swiftype}} is launched by former [[wikipedia:Scribd|Scribd]] employees Matt Riley and Quin Hoxie. The founders claim that the service is better than Google Site Search because, rather than simply restricting Google results to a specific site, it builds a "PageRank"-like model that is specific to the site, and also allows publishers control through mechanisms like pinning and unpinning.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://techcrunch.com/2012/05/08/swiftype-launch/|title = Y Combinator-Backed Swiftype Builds Site Search That Doesn’t Suck|last = Ha|first = Anthony|date = May 8, 2012|accessdate = May 28, 2017|publisher = ''[[wikipedia:TechCrunch|TechCrunch]]''}}</ref>
 
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| 2012 || || Launch || Search as a service || [[wikipedia:Algolia|Algolia]] is founded by Nicolas Dessaigne and Julien Lemoine of Paris, France.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.algolia.com/about|title = About Algolia|publisher = Algolia|accessdate = May 28, 2017}}</ref> Its initial focus is to support offline search on mobile phones, but it grows to offer real-time search-as-a-service,<ref>{{cite web|url = https://techcrunch.com/2014/01/21/algolia-provides-spotlight-for-the-web-with-its-turbocharged-realtime-search-api/|title = Algolia Provides ‘Spotlight’ For The Web With Its Turbocharged Real-Time Search API|last = Dillet|first = Romain|date = January 21, 2014|accessdate = May 28, 2017|publisher = ''[[wikipedia:TechCrunch|TechCrunch]]''}}</ref> reaching 21 billion monthly searches in April 2017.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://stories.algolia.com/how-algolia-reduces-latency-for-21b-searches-per-month-3959dc926f0|title = How Algolia Reduces Latency For 21B Searches Per Month|last = Dzielak|first = Josh|date = April 11, 2017|accessdate = May 28, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2012 || || Launch || Search as a service || {{w|Algolia}} is founded by Nicolas Dessaigne and Julien Lemoine of Paris, France.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.algolia.com/about|title = About Algolia|publisher = Algolia|accessdate = May 28, 2017}}</ref> Its initial focus is to support offline search on mobile phones, but it grows to offer real-time search-as-a-service,<ref>{{cite web|url = https://techcrunch.com/2014/01/21/algolia-provides-spotlight-for-the-web-with-its-turbocharged-realtime-search-api/|title = Algolia Provides ‘Spotlight’ For The Web With Its Turbocharged Real-Time Search API|last = Dillet|first = Romain|date = January 21, 2014|accessdate = May 28, 2017|publisher = ''[[wikipedia:TechCrunch|TechCrunch]]''}}</ref> reaching 21 billion monthly searches in April 2017.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://stories.algolia.com/how-algolia-reduces-latency-for-21b-searches-per-month-3959dc926f0|title = How Algolia Reduces Latency For 21B Searches Per Month|last = Dzielak|first = Josh|date = April 11, 2017|accessdate = May 28, 2017}}</ref>
 
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| 2015 || October 6 || Survey || Product search || A survey commissioned by [[wikipedia:BloomReach|BloomReach]] through [[wikipedia:Survata|Survata]] finds that, of 2000 United States consumers surveyed, 44% say they search for products directly within Amazon, compared to 34% who use top search engines such as Google, Bing, or Yahoo!<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.bloomreach.com/en/resources/blogs/2015/10/amazon-commands-nearly-half-of-consumers-first-product-search.html|title = Amazon Commands Nearly Half of Consumers' First Product Search|last = Moore|first = Sam|date = October 6, 2015|accessdate = May 28, 2017|publisher = [[wikipedia:BloomReach|BloomReach]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://searchenginewatch.com/2016/09/27/more-online-product-searches-start-on-amazon-than-google/|title = More online product searches start on Amazon than Google|last = Charlton|first = Graham|date = September 27, 2016|accessdate = May 28, 2017|publisher = SearchEngineWatch}}</ref>
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| 2012 || February 19 (initial incorporation) || Launch || Search software || The company {{w|Elastic NV}} is founded in the Netherlands as Elasticsearch. Its initial mission is to support the Elasticsearch software released in 2010, but the company will eventually expand to provide and support other softwares and tools related to search.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1707753/000119312518266861/d588632ds1.htm|title = Elastic N.V. Form S-1 Registration Commission|publisher = United States Securities and Exchange Commission|accessdate = July 13, 2019}}</ref>
 
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| 2017 || || Shutdown || Search as a service || Google discontinues sales of Google Site Search, its offering for websites that offers a highly site-customized site search solution. The product will be completely shut down by April 1, 2018.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://support.google.com/customsearch/answer/72325?hl=en|title = About Google Site Search|accessdate = May 28, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://blog.algolia.com/google-site-search-alternative/|title = Algolia: Picking up where Google Site Search left off|last = Utard|first = Sylvain|date = March 2, 2017|accessdate = May 28, 2017|publisher = Algolia}}</ref>
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| 2014 || January 6 || Tool adoption by website || Search software || The {{w|Wikimedia Foundation}} announces that it will switch from its own homegrown version of Apache Lucene to Elasticsearch for the search engine powering its websites (including {{w|Wikipedia}}). The blog post explains reasons for the move.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/01/06/wikimedia-moving-to-elasticsearch/|title = Wikimedia moving to Elasticsearch|last = Horohoe|first = Chad|date = January 6, 2014|accessdate = July 13, 2019|publisher = Wikimedia Foundation}}</ref>
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| 2015 || October 6 || Survey || Product search || A survey commissioned by {{w|BloomReach}} through {{w|Survata}} finds that, of 2000 United States consumers surveyed, 44% say they search for products directly within Amazon, compared to 34% who use top search engines such as Google, Bing, or Yahoo!<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.bloomreach.com/en/resources/blogs/2015/10/amazon-commands-nearly-half-of-consumers-first-product-search.html|title = Amazon Commands Nearly Half of Consumers' First Product Search|last = Moore|first = Sam|date = October 6, 2015|accessdate = May 28, 2017|publisher = [[wikipedia:BloomReach|BloomReach]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://searchenginewatch.com/2016/09/27/more-online-product-searches-start-on-amazon-than-google/|title = More online product searches start on Amazon than Google|last = Charlton|first = Graham|date = September 27, 2016|accessdate = May 28, 2017|publisher = SearchEngineWatch}}</ref>
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| 2017 || February 21 || Shutdown || Search as a service || Google discontinues sales of Google Site Search, its offering for websites that offers a highly site-customized site search solution. The product is to be completely shut down by April 1, 2018, and new sales are to stop on April 1, 2017.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://searchengineland.com/google-sunset-google-site-search-product-recommends-ad-supported-custom-search-engine-269834|title = Google to sunset Google Site Search by end of 2017. Google is telling their Site Search customers they have to find a new internal search engine service.|last = Schwartz|first = Barry|date = February 21, 2017|accessdate = July 13, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://support.google.com/customsearch/answer/72325?hl=en|title = About Google Site Search|accessdate = May 28, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://blog.algolia.com/google-site-search-alternative/|title = Algolia: Picking up where Google Site Search left off|last = Utard|first = Sylvain|date = March 2, 2017|accessdate = May 28, 2017|publisher = Algolia}}</ref>
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| 2017 || November 9 || Merger || Search as a service || Elastic NV (the company behind Elasticsearch) acquires Swiftype.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/09/elastic-acquires-swiftype/|title = Elastic acquires search startup Swiftype|date = November 11, 2017|accessdate = July 13, 2019|publisher = TechCrunch}}</ref>
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| 2018 || || Launch || Third-party search tool for website || Flixable, a website to help browse and search the Netflix catalog more effectively, launches.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.teenvogue.com/story/this-website-makes-finding-movies-on-netflix-easier-than-ever|title = This Website Makes Finding Movies on Netflix Easier Than Ever. Meet Flixable: a directory for the streaming service.|author = De Elizabeth|date = January 20, 2018|accessdate = July 13, 2019}}</ref>
 
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== Numerical and visual data  ==
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=== Google Scholar ===
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The following table summarizes per-year mentions on Google Scholar as of October 26, 2021.
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{| class="sortable wikitable"
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! Year
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! "site search"
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| 2000 || 2,380
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| 2002 || 5,260
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| 2004 || 4,960
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| 2006 || 3,910
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| 2008 || 4,590
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| 2010 || 5,340
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| 2012 || 5,690
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| 2014 || 5,300
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| 2016 || 4,730
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| 2018 || 4,570
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| 2020 || 5,640
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|}
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[[File:Site search gscho.png|thumb|center|700px]]
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=== Google Trends ===
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The chart below shows {{w|Google Trends}} data for Search as a service (Topic), from January 2004 to April 2021, when the screenshot was taken. Interest is also ranked by country and displayed on world map.<ref>{{cite web |title=Search as a service |url=https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%2Fg%2F11bw27p45h |website=Google Trends |access-date=26 April 2021}}</ref>
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[[File:Search as a service gt.png|thumb|center|600px]]
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=== Google Ngram Viewer ===
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The comparative chart below shows {{w|Google Ngram Viewer}} data for Search software, website search and site search, from 1950 to 2019.<ref>{{cite web |title=Search software, website search and site search |url=https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Search+software%2Cwebsite+search%2C+site+search&year_start=1950&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=3&direct_url=t1%3B%2CSearch%20software%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cwebsite%20search%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Csite%20search%3B%2Cc0#t1%3B%2CSearch%20software%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cwebsite%20search%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Csite%20search%3B%2Cc0 |website=books.google.com |access-date=26 April 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
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[[File:Search software, website search and site search ngram.png|thumb|center|700px]]
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=== Wikipedia Views ===
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The chart below shows pageviews of the English Wikipedia article {{w|Search as a service}}, from July 2015 to March 2021.<ref>{{cite web |title=Search as a service |url=https://wikipediaviews.org/displayviewsformultiplemonths.php?page=Search+as+a+service&allmonths=allmonths-api&language=en&drilldown=all |website=wikipediaviews.org |access-date=26 April 2021}}</ref>
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[[File:Search as a service wv.png|thumb|center|450px]]
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== References ==
 
== References ==
  
 
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Latest revision as of 18:36, 9 April 2024

This timeline covers within-site or within-app search as used by websites ranging from large content repositories (such as Wikipedia, Reddit, or Imgur) to e-commerce websites (such as Amazon and Target) to two-sided markets (such as eBay and Airbnb) to social media sites. The timeline includes key conceptual developments, new tools and technologies, and services (both cloud services and installable softwares) that power the search experiences.


Full timeline

Year Month and date (if available) Event type Entity type Details
1999 Launch Search software Doug Cutting writes the first version of Lucene, a free and open-source information retrieval software library written in Java.[1] With its full text indexing and searching capability, Lucene would be useful for site search engines.
2004 Launch Search software Shay Banon releases Compass, a search tool based off of Lucene, and a precursor to Elasticsearch.[2]
2004 Launch Search software Solr is created by Yonik Seeley at CNET Networks as an in-house project for search on the company website. In January 2006, the code would be open-sourced and donated to the Apache Software Foundation.
2010 February Launch Search software Shay Banon releases the first version of Elasticsearch.[3] This is a successor to Compass, released in 2004, and is based on Lucene.
2012 Launch Search as a service Site search tool Swiftype is launched by former Scribd employees Matt Riley and Quin Hoxie. The founders claim that the service is better than Google Site Search because, rather than simply restricting Google results to a specific site, it builds a "PageRank"-like model that is specific to the site, and also allows publishers control through mechanisms like pinning and unpinning.[4]
2012 Launch Search as a service Algolia is founded by Nicolas Dessaigne and Julien Lemoine of Paris, France.[5] Its initial focus is to support offline search on mobile phones, but it grows to offer real-time search-as-a-service,[6] reaching 21 billion monthly searches in April 2017.[7]
2012 February 19 (initial incorporation) Launch Search software The company Elastic NV is founded in the Netherlands as Elasticsearch. Its initial mission is to support the Elasticsearch software released in 2010, but the company will eventually expand to provide and support other softwares and tools related to search.[8]
2014 January 6 Tool adoption by website Search software The Wikimedia Foundation announces that it will switch from its own homegrown version of Apache Lucene to Elasticsearch for the search engine powering its websites (including Wikipedia). The blog post explains reasons for the move.[9]
2015 October 6 Survey Product search A survey commissioned by BloomReach through Survata finds that, of 2000 United States consumers surveyed, 44% say they search for products directly within Amazon, compared to 34% who use top search engines such as Google, Bing, or Yahoo![10][11]
2017 February 21 Shutdown Search as a service Google discontinues sales of Google Site Search, its offering for websites that offers a highly site-customized site search solution. The product is to be completely shut down by April 1, 2018, and new sales are to stop on April 1, 2017.[12][13][14]
2017 November 9 Merger Search as a service Elastic NV (the company behind Elasticsearch) acquires Swiftype.[15]
2018 Launch Third-party search tool for website Flixable, a website to help browse and search the Netflix catalog more effectively, launches.[16]

Numerical and visual data

Google Scholar

The following table summarizes per-year mentions on Google Scholar as of October 26, 2021.

Year "site search"
2000 2,380
2002 5,260
2004 4,960
2006 3,910
2008 4,590
2010 5,340
2012 5,690
2014 5,300
2016 4,730
2018 4,570
2020 5,640
Site search gscho.png

Google Trends

The chart below shows Google Trends data for Search as a service (Topic), from January 2004 to April 2021, when the screenshot was taken. Interest is also ranked by country and displayed on world map.[17]

Search as a service gt.png

Google Ngram Viewer

The comparative chart below shows Google Ngram Viewer data for Search software, website search and site search, from 1950 to 2019.[18]

Search software, website search and site search ngram.png

Wikipedia Views

The chart below shows pageviews of the English Wikipedia article Search as a service, from July 2015 to March 2021.[19]

Search as a service wv.png


References

  1. ↑ KeywordAnalyzer "Better Search with Apache Lucene and Solr" (PDF). 19 November 2007. 
  2. ↑ Banon, Shay. "The Future of Compass & ElasticSearch". 
  3. ↑ Banon, Shay (2010-02-08). "You Know, for Search". Archived from the original on 2013-01-16. 
  4. ↑ Ha, Anthony (May 8, 2012). "Y Combinator-Backed Swiftype Builds Site Search That Doesn't Suck". TechCrunch. Retrieved May 28, 2017. 
  5. ↑ "About Algolia". Algolia. Retrieved May 28, 2017. 
  6. ↑ Dillet, Romain (January 21, 2014). "Algolia Provides 'Spotlight' For The Web With Its Turbocharged Real-Time Search API". TechCrunch. Retrieved May 28, 2017. 
  7. ↑ Dzielak, Josh (April 11, 2017). "How Algolia Reduces Latency For 21B Searches Per Month". Retrieved May 28, 2017. 
  8. ↑ "Elastic N.V. Form S-1 Registration Commission". United States Securities and Exchange Commission. Retrieved July 13, 2019. 
  9. ↑ Horohoe, Chad (January 6, 2014). "Wikimedia moving to Elasticsearch". Wikimedia Foundation. Retrieved July 13, 2019. 
  10. ↑ Moore, Sam (October 6, 2015). "Amazon Commands Nearly Half of Consumers' First Product Search". BloomReach. Retrieved May 28, 2017. 
  11. ↑ Charlton, Graham (September 27, 2016). "More online product searches start on Amazon than Google". SearchEngineWatch. Retrieved May 28, 2017. 
  12. ↑ Schwartz, Barry (February 21, 2017). "Google to sunset Google Site Search by end of 2017. Google is telling their Site Search customers they have to find a new internal search engine service.". Retrieved July 13, 2019. 
  13. ↑ "About Google Site Search". Retrieved May 28, 2017. 
  14. ↑ Utard, Sylvain (March 2, 2017). "Algolia: Picking up where Google Site Search left off". Algolia. Retrieved May 28, 2017. 
  15. ↑ "Elastic acquires search startup Swiftype". TechCrunch. November 11, 2017. Retrieved July 13, 2019. 
  16. ↑ De Elizabeth (January 20, 2018). "This Website Makes Finding Movies on Netflix Easier Than Ever. Meet Flixable: a directory for the streaming service.". Retrieved July 13, 2019. 
  17. ↑ "Search as a service". Google Trends. Retrieved 26 April 2021. 
  18. ↑ "Search software, website search and site search". books.google.com. Retrieved 26 April 2021. 
  19. ↑ "Search as a service". wikipediaviews.org. Retrieved 26 April 2021. 
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