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.
^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
^ abGoogling 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.
^ abMatrix, 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).
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