ALIWEB

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ALIWEB ( acronym from A rchie L ike I ndexing for the Web ) is considered the first search engine , as some predecessors ( Gopher ) other purposes pursued or merely were indexer. So also The Wanderer, which was considered a crawler search engine, but only collected addresses and documents.

ALIWEB was first announced in November 1993 by the developer Martijn Koster and presented in May 1994 at the international conference in Geneva on the World Wide Web . ALIWEB was a few months ahead of other WebCrawlers, as it also indexed website content. However, this only happened if the index was viewed in the form of keywords ( metatags) delivered himself. This gave the webmasters the opportunity to define the terms that would lead users to their pages. Some webmasters did not understand how to index the data and therefore resorted to bot-based search engines. Few people submitted their websites to ALIWEB, which meant that the search engine was not widely used.

Martijn Koster, who was also significantly involved in the creation of the Robots Exclusion Standard , explained the background and goals of ALIWEB at CERN .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frank Patalong, DER SPIEGEL: Search engines before Google: In the beginning was the list - DER SPIEGEL - Netzwelt. Retrieved January 18, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Wiley :: Companion Sites / Sonnenreich et al. Retrieved January 18, 2020 .
  3. ^ Jon Henshaw: Google and others update and submit Robots Exclusion Protocol to create new standard. July 1, 2019, accessed January 18, 2020 (American English).
  4. ^ The Web Robots Pages. Retrieved January 18, 2020 .