Abstract: The Higgs boson, which plays a central role in electroweak symmetry breaking as described by the standard model, has not yet been observed experimentally, and final search results from the four LEP experiments indicate that the mass of the Higgs boson must be greater than 114 GeV/c2. Experiments at the Tevatron, currently the world's highest-energy particle accelerator, have taken up the hunt and seek to pin down the standard model Higgs boson mass through both direct searches and precision electroweak measurements. The direct searches for Higgs boson production require detailed knowledge of the data sample composition and rely on the bleeding edge of experimental technique and collider phenomenology. These results of the search for the Higgs boson using data from the Collider Detector at Fermilab highlight the challenges of new particle searches at present and future hadron colliders.