JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science 1(4): 247-250, doi: 10.3217/jucs-001-04-0247
WAIS and Information Retrieval on the Internet
expand article infoHelmut Mülner‡
‡ JOANNEUM Research - IHM, Graz, Austria

Corresponding author: Helmut Mülner ( hmuelner@iicm.edu )

© Helmut Mülner.
This article is freely available under the J.UCS Open Content License.
Citation: Mülner H (1995) WAIS and Information Retrieval on the Internet. JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science 1(4): 247-250. https://doi.org/10.3217/jucs-001-04-0247
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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.