WISE - A WORLD-WIDE-WEB RESOURCE DATABASE SYSTEM

This paper describes the World Wide Web Index and Search Engine (WISE) for Internet resource discovery. The system is designed around a reso urce database containing meta-information about WWW resources and is a utomatically built using an indexer robot, a special WWW client agent. The resource database allows users to search for resources based on k eywords, and to learn about potentially relevant resources without hav ing to directly access them. Such capabilities can significantly reduc e the amount of time that a user needs to spend in order to find the i nformation of his/her interest We discuss WISE's main components: the resource database, the indexer robot, the search engine, and the user interface, and through the technical discussions, we highlight the res earch issues invoked in the design, the implementation and the evaluat ion of such a system.