Pinning Down The Fleeting Internet: Web Crawler Archives Historical Data For Easy Searching

The Internet contains vast amounts of information, much of it unorganized. But what you see online at any given moment is just a snapshot of the Web as a whole -- many pages change rapidly or disappear completely, and the old data gets lost forever. Now, Adar and his colleagues at UW and Adobe Systems Inc. are grabbing hold of the fleeting Web and storing historical sites that users can easily search using an intuitive application called Zoetrope. With Zoetrope, anyone will be able to use easy keyword searches to find archived Web information or look for patterns over time.

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