Table of Contents The search engine says it will contribute to global standards with privacy in mind. DuckDuckGo has joined the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the search engine announced on Monday.

Invisible Web, as the name suggests is the invisible part of the World Wide Web which either is not indexed on the search engine or is subjected to various access restrictions.

In the era before the World Wide Web, Archie served as a search engine for FTP sites around the globe. In its early days, users accessed it through Telnet sessions like that captured at left.

Search engines can’t access the entire web Clearly, the world wide web came with inherent challenges. And that brings me to another hugely important fact to highlight.

Given the World Wide Web's ubiquity, you might be tempted to believe that everything is online. But there's one important piece of the Web's own history that can't be found through a search engine ...

For the European physicists who created the World Wide Web, preserving its history is as elusive as unlocking the mysteries of how the universe began. The scientists at the European Organization fo… ...

Learn how search engines work with this KS2 primary computing guide from BBC Bitesize for years 3 and 4.