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| owner = Jonathon Fletcher |
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| current_status = Defunct/Closed 1994 |
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'''JumpStation''' was the first [[Web search engine|WWW search engine]] that behaved, and appeared to the user, the way current web search engines do.<ref>[http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Why_we_nearly_McGoogled_it&in_article_id=582089 Why we nearly McGoogled it] Metro, |
'''JumpStation''' was the first [[Web search engine|WWW search engine]] that behaved, and appeared to the user, the way current web search engines do.<ref>[http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Why_we_nearly_McGoogled_it&in_article_id=582089 Why we nearly McGoogled it] Metro, 15 March 2009</ref> It started indexing on 12 December 1993<ref>[http://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb/user/mkgray/tmp/coolwwwmail Archive of email sent to Matt Gray]</ref> and was announced on the [[Mosaic (web browser)|Mosaic]] "What's New" webpage on 21 December 1993.<ref>Archive of NCSA's [https://web.archive.org/web/20010620073530/http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/Docs/old-whats-new/whats-new-1293.html What's New, December 1993]</ref> It was hosted at the [[University of Stirling]] in [[Scotland]]. |
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It was written by Jonathon Fletcher, from [[Scarborough, North Yorkshire|Scarborough]], England,<ref>[http://www.robotstxt.org/db/jumpstation.html The Web Robots Pages: JumpStation]</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090328225441/http://www.slais.ubc.ca/COURSES/libr500/00-01-wt2/www/E_Hernandez/EarlySpiders.htm Robots, Spiders and Wanderers: Finding Information on the Web] archived March |
It was written by Jonathon Fletcher, from [[Scarborough, North Yorkshire|Scarborough]], England,<ref>[http://www.robotstxt.org/db/jumpstation.html The Web Robots Pages: JumpStation]</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090328225441/http://www.slais.ubc.ca/COURSES/libr500/00-01-wt2/www/E_Hernandez/EarlySpiders.htm Robots, Spiders and Wanderers: Finding Information on the Web] archived 28 March 2009 from [http://www.slais.ubc.ca/COURSES/libr500/00-01-wt2/www/E_Hernandez/EarlySpiders.htm the original]</ref> who graduated from the University with a first class honours degree in Computing Science in the summer of 1992<ref name="Scotland on Sunday">[http://www.scotsman.com/latestnews/Googling-was-born-in-Stirling.5073256.jp Googling was born in Stirling] The Scotsman, 15 March 2009</ref> and has subsequently been named "father of the search engine".<ref>{{cite news|last=Miller|first=Joe|date=3 September 2013|title=Jonathon Fletcher: forgotten father of the search engine|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23945326|access-date=10 September 2013}}</ref> |
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He was subsequently employed there as a systems administrator. JumpStation's development discontinued when he left the University in late 1994, having failed to get any investors, including the University of Stirling, to financially back his idea.<ref name="Scotland on Sunday"/> At this point the database had 275,000 entries spanning 1,500 servers.<ref name="matrix">[https://web.archive.org/web/20090328134137/http://www.ambrosiasw.com/~fprefect/matrix/js.html Matrix, Search Engines: JumpStation] archived |
He was subsequently employed there as a systems administrator. JumpStation's development discontinued when he left the University in late 1994, having failed to get any investors, including the University of Stirling, to financially back his idea.<ref name="Scotland on Sunday"/> At this point the database had 275,000 entries spanning 1,500 servers.<ref name="matrix">[https://web.archive.org/web/20090328134137/http://www.ambrosiasw.com/~fprefect/matrix/js.html Matrix, Search Engines: JumpStation] archived 28 March 2009 from [http://www.ambrosiasw.com/~fprefect/matrix/js.html the original]</ref> |
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JumpStation used document titles and headings to index the web pages found using a simple linear search, and did not provide any ranking of results.<ref name="matrix" /><ref>[http://www.searchenginehistory.com/ SearchEngineHistory.com]</ref> However, |
JumpStation used document titles and headings to index the web pages found using a simple linear search, and did not provide any ranking of results.<ref name="matrix" /><ref>[http://www.searchenginehistory.com/ SearchEngineHistory.com]</ref> However, JumpStation had the same basic shape as [[Google Search]] in that it used an index solely built by a [[web robot]], searched this index using keyword queries entered by the user on a [[web form]] whose location was well-known,<ref>Oliver A. McBryan: GENVL and WWWW: Tools for Taming the Web, Oscar Nierstrasz (Ed.), Proceedings of the First International World Wide Web Conference, Geneva, Switzerland, May 1994 (Ref 9).</ref> and presented its results in the form of a list of [[URL]]s that matched those keywords. |
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== Nominations == |
== Nominations == |
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JumpStation was nominated for a [[Best of the Web awards|"Best Of The Web" award]] in 1994<ref>[http://botw.org/1994/awards/navigate.html Best of the Web '94: Best Navigational Aid] Best of the Web</ref> and the story of its origin and development written up, using interviews with Fletcher, by Wishart and Bochsler.<ref>Adam Wishart and Regula Bochsler: Leaving Reality Behind: etoys v eToys.com, and other battles to control cyberspace, Ecco, 2003, {{ISBN|0-06-621076-3}}.</ref> |
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==See also== |
==See also== |
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*[[WebCrawler]] |
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*[[World Wide Web Worm]] |
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*[[Excite]] |
*[[Excite (web portal)|Excite]] |
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== References == |
== References == |
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Type of site | Web search engine |
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| Available in | English |
| Owner | Jonathon Fletcher |
| Launched | 12 December 1993 |
| Current status | Defunct/Closed 1994 |
JumpStation was the first WWW search engine that behaved, and appeared to the user, the way current web search engines do.[1] It started indexing on 12 December 1993[2] and was announced on the Mosaic "What's New" webpage on 21 December 1993.[3] It was hosted at the University of Stirling in Scotland.
It was written by Jonathon Fletcher, from Scarborough, England,[4][5] who graduated from the University with a first class honours degree in Computing Science in the summer of 1992[6] and has subsequently been named "father of the search engine".[7]
He was subsequently employed there as a systems administrator. JumpStation's development discontinued when he left the University in late 1994, having failed to get any investors, including the University of Stirling, to financially back his idea.[6] At this point the database had 275,000 entries spanning 1,500 servers.[8]
JumpStation used document titles and headings to index the web pages found using a simple linear search, and did not provide any ranking of results.[8][9] However, JumpStation had the same basic shape as Google Search in that it used an index solely built by a web robot, searched this index using keyword queries entered by the user on a web form whose location was well-known,[10] and presented its results in the form of a list of URLs that matched those keywords.
Nominations
[edit]JumpStation was nominated for a "Best Of The Web" award in 1994[11] and the story of its origin and development written up, using interviews with Fletcher, by Wishart and Bochsler.[12]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Why we nearly McGoogled it Metro, 15 March 2009
- ^ Archive of email sent to Matt Gray
- ^ Archive of NCSA's What's New, December 1993
- ^ The Web Robots Pages: JumpStation
- ^ Robots, Spiders and Wanderers: Finding Information on the Web archived 28 March 2009 from the original
- ^ a b Googling was born in Stirling The Scotsman, 15 March 2009
- ^ Miller, Joe (3 September 2013). "Jonathon Fletcher: forgotten father of the search engine". BBC News. Retrieved 10 September 2013.
- ^ a b Matrix, Search Engines: JumpStation archived 28 March 2009 from the original
- ^ SearchEngineHistory.com
- ^ Oliver A. McBryan: GENVL and WWWW: Tools for Taming the Web, Oscar Nierstrasz (Ed.), Proceedings of the First International World Wide Web Conference, Geneva, Switzerland, May 1994 (Ref 9).
- ^ Best of the Web '94: Best Navigational Aid Best of the Web
- ^ Adam Wishart and Regula Bochsler: Leaving Reality Behind: etoys v eToys.com, and other battles to control cyberspace, Ecco, 2003, ISBN 0-06-621076-3.