World Wide Web Worm
The World Wide Web Worm (WWWW) was one of the earliest
University of Colorado
as a research project. It is claimed by some to be the first search engine, though it was not released until March 1994, by which time a number of other search engines had been made publicly available.
The worm created a database of 300,000 multimedia objects which could be obtained or searched for keywords via the WWW. It indexed about 110,000 webpages as of 1994.regular expressions.
The website, http://www.cs.colorado.edu/home/mcbryan/WWWW.html, is no longer accessible (archive). Circa 1997
Goto.com purchased WWWW's technology. McBryan stated in a 2016 podcast that WWWW was an educational project and he never thought of commercializing it like Excite or Yahoo! did, partly because the University did not have a department that dealt specifically with such computer technology.[2]
References
- ^ "The Anatomy of a Search Engine". www7.scu.edu.au. Archived from the original on 2019-07-02. Retrieved 2019-02-06.
- ^ McCullough, Brian (November 6, 2016). "Was The World Wide Web Worm the First Web Search Engine?". Internet History Podcast. Retrieved 2019-02-06.
- Oliver A. McBryan. GENVL and WWWW: Tools for Taming the Web. Research explained at First International Conference on the World Wide Web. CERN, Geneva (Switzerland), May 25-26-27, 1994. web.Archive.org: ggy www.cs.colorado.edu/home/mcbryan/mypapers/www94.ps (pdf version)