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A very complete page concerning the terrorist bombings of September 11, 2001 are listed on one of the links along with pictures of the World Trade Center under construction. |
A very complete page concerning the terrorist bombings of September 11, 2001 are listed on one of the links along with pictures of the World Trade Center under construction. |
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Martijn Koster on his homepage states: "Note that I have nothing to do with aliweb.com. It appears some marketing company has taken the old aliweb code and data, and are using it as a a site for advertising purposes. Their search results are worthless. Their claim to have trademarked "aliweb" I have been unable to confirm in patent searches. My recommendation is that you avoid them." |
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Aliweb was released my Martijn Koster into the Public Domain in a dispute with Nexor which owned the web server and service. Later Nexor gave permission for Aliweb.com to use the directory data from the Aliweb database and has since discontinued this service. The current alwieb.com website maintains the last aliweb updated database in existance on the web and claims a trademark on the name aliweb as well as alilinks and alisearch (they used these names first in commerce per trademark rules in the United States). It hopes to retool the aliweb.com website with a new version of the aliweb search engine in 2007 |
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== References == |
== References == |
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Revision as of 09:44, 3 June 2006
Aliweb (Archie Like Indexing for the Web) can be considered the first Web search engine, as its predecessors were either built with different purposes (as it is the case with the World Wide Web Wanderer) or were literally just indexers (as Archie, Gopher, Veronica and Jughead). It was conceived in 1993 and first presented at the First International Conference on the World-Wide Web in Geneva in 1994. Therefore it preceded WebCrawler by about a year.
Aliweb allowed users to submit the location of an index file on their site, which enabled the search engine to include their webpages and add a user written page description and keywords. This empowered webmasters, who could define the terms that would lead users to their pages and also avoided setting bots (as the Wanderer) which used up bandwidth. It's developer, Martijn Koster, was also instrumental in the creation of the Robots Exclusion Standard. (Koster, 1994) [1] discusses the background and objectives of ALIWEB, as well as providing an overview of how it functioned and some insight into it's framework.
Aliweb is currently undergoing a total rewrite of the programing code and is set to relaunch in 2007 as a competitor to Goodle, MSN, and Yahoo. The current site at aliweb.com has the very last update of the original aliweb database. The entire database at the beginning of the web was so small, that the original program only searched from the beginning until it had the required number of results requested. The search program was reprogrammed to search the entire database and then report the best matches through a weighted system. The database is no longer updated and is maintained for historical purposes and is largely outdated.
A list of approximately 500 of the most popular sites on the internet is maintained on the aliweb.com homepage called alilinks. Some of these links are also outdated.
A very complete page concerning the terrorist bombings of September 11, 2001 are listed on one of the links along with pictures of the World Trade Center under construction.
References
- Koster, M. "ALIWEB - Archie-Like Indexing in the WEB". Retrieved May 17.
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