WAIS and Information Retrieval on the Internet

Helmut Mülner (JOANNEUM Research - IHM, Austria)

Abstract: WAIS (Wide Area Information Servers), a development of Thinking Machine Corporation, turned out to be one of the main search engines in connection with the World Wide Web (WWW). This article gives a short overview of WAIS, its history, its basics and some connected developments.

Categories: H.5.1