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The search engine used document titles and headings to index the web pages found using a simple linear search, and did not provide any ranking of results.<ref name="matrix" /><ref>[http://www.searchenginehistory.com/ SearchEngineHistory.com]</ref> In that it used an index solely built by a [[web robot]], searched this index using keyword queries entered by the user on a [[web form]]<ref>Oliver A. McBryan: GENVL and WWWW: Tools for Taming the Web, Oscar Nierstrasz (Ed.), Proceedings of the First International World Wide Web Conference, Geneva, Switzerland, May 1994 (Ref 9).</ref>, and presented its results in the form of a list of URLs that matched those keywords, JumpStation had the same basic shape as [[Google search]]. |
The search engine used document titles and headings to index the web pages found using a simple linear search, and did not provide any ranking of results.<ref name="matrix" /><ref>[http://www.searchenginehistory.com/ SearchEngineHistory.com]</ref> In that it used an index solely built by a [[web robot]], searched this index using keyword queries entered by the user on a [[web form]]<ref>Oliver A. McBryan: GENVL and WWWW: Tools for Taming the Web, Oscar Nierstrasz (Ed.), Proceedings of the First International World Wide Web Conference, Geneva, Switzerland, May 1994 (Ref 9).</ref>, and presented its results in the form of a list of URLs that matched those keywords, JumpStation had the same basic shape as [[Google search]]. |
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Prior to JumpStation, the [[World Wide Web Wanderer]], while it may have been the first documented [[web robot]], was produced to discover WWW servers<ref>[http://www.farcaster.com/papers/ifish/ifish-tr.pdf Brian LaMacchia: Internet Fish (PhD Thesis), 1996, section 1.2.3]</ref> |
Prior to JumpStation, the [[World Wide Web Wanderer]], while it may have been the first documented [[web robot]], was produced to discover WWW servers<ref>[http://www.farcaster.com/papers/ifish/ifish-tr.pdf Brian LaMacchia: Internet Fish (PhD Thesis), 1996, section 1.2.3]</ref>. [[Aliweb]] used no web robot but instead depended on the submission of the location of index files by webserver administrators for its searching capabilities. |
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JumpStation was nominated for a "Best Of The Web" award in 1994.<ref>[http://botw.org/1994/awards/navigate.html BOTW Awards 1994]</ref>, and the story of its origin and development written up, using interviews with Fletcher, by Wishart and Bochsler,<ref>Adam Wishart and Regula Bochsler: Leaving Reality Behind: etoys v eToys.com, and other battles to control cyberspace, Ecco, 2003, ISBN 0066210763.</ref> |
JumpStation was nominated for a "Best Of The Web" award in 1994.<ref>[http://botw.org/1994/awards/navigate.html BOTW Awards 1994]</ref>, and the story of its origin and development written up, using interviews with Fletcher, by Wishart and Bochsler,<ref>Adam Wishart and Regula Bochsler: Leaving Reality Behind: etoys v eToys.com, and other battles to control cyberspace, Ecco, 2003, ISBN 0066210763.</ref> |
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Revision as of 09:23, 9 March 2009
JumpStation was the first WWW search engine that behaved, and appeared to the user, the way current web search engines do. It started indexing on Sunday 12th December 1993[1] and was announced on the Mosaic "What's New" webpage on 21st December 1993.[2] It was hosted at the University of Stirling in Scotland.
It was written by Jonathon Fletcher[3][4], who graduated from the University with a first class honours degree in Computing Science in the summer of 1992. He was subsequently employed there as a systems administrator. JumpStation's development discontinued when he left the University in late 1994. At this point the database had 275,000 entries spanning 1500 servers.[5]
The search engine used document titles and headings to index the web pages found using a simple linear search, and did not provide any ranking of results.[5][6] In that it used an index solely built by a web robot, searched this index using keyword queries entered by the user on a web form[7], and presented its results in the form of a list of URLs that matched those keywords, JumpStation had the same basic shape as Google search.
Prior to JumpStation, the World Wide Web Wanderer, while it may have been the first documented web robot, was produced to discover WWW servers[8]. Aliweb used no web robot but instead depended on the submission of the location of index files by webserver administrators for its searching capabilities.
JumpStation was nominated for a "Best Of The Web" award in 1994.[9], and the story of its origin and development written up, using interviews with Fletcher, by Wishart and Bochsler,[10]
References
- ^ Archive of email sent to Matt Gray
- ^ Archive of NCSA what's new in December 1993 page
- ^ http://www.robotstxt.org/db/jumpstation.html
- ^ Early Spiders
- ^ a b http://www.ambrosiasw.com/~fprefect/matrix/js.html
- ^ SearchEngineHistory.com
- ^ Oliver A. McBryan: GENVL and WWWW: Tools for Taming the Web, Oscar Nierstrasz (Ed.), Proceedings of the First International World Wide Web Conference, Geneva, Switzerland, May 1994 (Ref 9).
- ^ Brian LaMacchia: Internet Fish (PhD Thesis), 1996, section 1.2.3
- ^ BOTW Awards 1994
- ^ Adam Wishart and Regula Bochsler: Leaving Reality Behind: etoys v eToys.com, and other battles to control cyberspace, Ecco, 2003, ISBN 0066210763.