Internet, which is changed our life, and also the number of web pages increases every day, and many people think how to control information that is coming from The Internet. The search engine is one of the best solutions to manage the information on the Internet. The search engine is innovation, which helps users to search on the World Wide Web about any pages and also could assist people to explore any information on the Internet. Then it can display the result on the page, which is called search engine result. This paper will discuss the history of search engines, types of search engines and how search engines work.