ALIWEB, short for Archie Like Indexing for the Web, is a pioneering web moteur de recherche[2], launched in November 1993. It was the second web search engine to be developed, following JumpStation. Martijn Koster, a software engineer at Nexor, is credited with its development. ALIWEB was unique in its approach, allowing users to submit index file locations for their websites, empowering webmasters to define their own search terms, and helping to circumvent bandwidth issues caused by bots. Despite its innovative features, ALIWEB did not gain widespread use due to low site submissions. Koster presented ALIWEB at the First International Conference on the World Wide Web[1] in 1994 and has since contributed significantly to the Robots Exclusion Standard.
ALIWEB (Archie-Like Indexing for the Web) is considered the second Web moteur de recherche after JumpStation.
Type de site | Moteur de recherche |
|---|---|
| URL | ALIWEB at the Wayback Machine (archived 18 June 1997) |
| Lancé | May 1994 |
| Statut actuel | Defunct |
First announced in November 1993 by developer Martijn Koster while working at Nexor, and presented in May 1994 at the First International Conference on the World Wide Web at CERN à Geneva, ALIWEB preceded WebCrawler by several months.
ALIWEB allowed users to submit the locations of index files on their sites which enabled the search engine to include webpages and add user-written page descriptions and keywords. This empowered webmasters to define the terms that would lead users to their pages, and also avoided setting bots (e.g. the Wanderer, JumpStation) which used up bandwidth. As relatively few people submitted their sites, ALIWEB was not very widely used.
Martijn Koster, who was also instrumental in the creation of the Robots Exclusion Standard, detailed the background and objectives of ALIWEB with an overview of its functions and framework in the paper he presented at CERN.
Koster is not associated with a commercial website posing as ALIWEB.
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