World Wide Web Wanderer

World Wide Web Wanderer
Type of site
 Web search engine
Launched June 30, 1993 (1993-06-30)
Current status Closed

The World Wide Web Wanderer, also referred to as just the Wanderer, was a Perl-based web crawler that was first deployed in June 1993 to measure the size of the World Wide Web. The Wanderer was developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology by Matthew Gray, who now works for Google. It was used to generate an index called the Wandex later in 1993. While the Wanderer was probably the first web robot, and, with its index, clearly had the potential to become a general-purpose WWW search engine, the author does not make this claim[1] and elsewhere[2] it is stated that this was not its purpose. The Wanderer charted the growth of the web until late 1995.

References

  1. ↑ Matt Gray's home page Pertinent page on Matt Gray's section on MIT site
  2. ↑ Brian LaMacchia's PhD thesis, section 1.2.3
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