Re: searchable index of the web

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Date: Wed, 30 Jun 93 13:14:29 +0200
From: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@www3.cern.ch>
Message-id: <9306301114.AA04091@www3.cern.ch>
To: joe@athena.mit.edu
Subject: Re: searchable index of the web
Cc: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
Reply-To: timbl@nxoc01.cern.ch

>From: joe@athena.mit.edu
>Date: Wed, 30 Jun 93 01:39:29 -0400
>
>A very incomplete index of the web is located at
>http://sturgeon.mit.edu:8001 as part of the Usenet University -- New
>Network Academy.  The way that this index works is that items are
>assigned a "coverage code" 010 being a general index of everything  
on
>the net to 120 which is an item (for example, a question in a Usenet
>FAQ) and are sorted from most general reference to least general.

This weighting of the generality of a node is very interesting,
especially for indexes.

How were the entries in your index collected -- by hand,
or by a traversal of the web?

Tim BL