Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

WebCrawler Turns 10 Today

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the young-at-art dept.

Brian Pinkerton writes "WebCrawler, one of the first search engines on the 'Net, turns 10 today. You can read a short history of WebCrawler. When I wrote WebCrawler, one could do a credible job of crawling, indexing, and searching the Web from a single desktop PC. Today, the reality is a little bit different."

6 of 136 comments (clear)

  1. Guess this celebration... by oberondarksoul · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...won't have an accompanying Google Doodle?

    --
    And tomorrow the stock exchange will be the human race
  2. Then and now... by jdreed1024 · · Score: 5, Funny
    When I wrote WebCrawler, one could do a credible job of crawling, indexing, and searching the Web from a single desktop PC. Today, the reality is a little bit different.

    No kidding. Back then, one could serve a website from most any machine, and it would be there for all to see. Today only the largest websites can avoid a slashdotting with only 9 posts in the thread.

    --
    There is no sig, there is only Zuul.
    1. Re:Then and now... by mph · · Score: 5, Funny
      Today only the largest websites can avoid a slashdotting with only 9 posts in the thread.
      Imagine how bad it would be if everyone actually read the articles.
  3. Birthday party by jacobhoupt · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'll be hosting my tenth annual WebCrawler birthday party tonight in the back of my Yugo.

    Feel free to drop in, there should be plenty of seating available for those interested.

    --
    -- the only good thing the French ever did was two chicks at one time
  4. Well isn't that ironic by Zygote-IC- · · Score: 5, Funny

    So, to read a story celebrating an anniversary about a search engine, we have to go through the cache of another search engine?

    Go figure.

  5. The WebCrawler Search Voyeur by Faust7 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Anyone remember the WebCrawler Search Voyeur?

    It was a little Java applet that sat on your screen and displayed the pseudo-real-time search queries of other people.

    When I was a computer lab monitor at my college, we used to note in the log book any particularly amusing queries that we'd seen.

    "hairy woman"... "squirrel torture"... "tom AND cruise AND foot AND odor"... "asian girl underage spanking"...

    --
    The coolest voice ever.