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Foil 22 Motivation for Web Search Systems

From Web Technology Overview CPS616 Basic Information Track for Computational Science -- Winter-Spring Semester 96. by Geoffrey Fox * See also color IMAGE

Information Discovery - Locate Relevant Sources (URLs) with Reasonable Efforts/Time
A Centralized Web Data Repository- Cache/Replicate Information to Alleviate Regional Network and Server Overhead
A Unified Internet Search Interface - Search for Various Information Sources, HTTP, FTP, Gopher, WAIS, Usenet Newsgroups, Archive, On-line Databases and Libraries, etc.


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