Media, Information and Technoculture 2157A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Web Directory, Internet Bot, Graphical User Interface

• School: Western University
• Department: Media, Information and Technoculture
• Course: Media, Information and Technoculture 2157A/B
• Professor: Grant Campbell

Document Summary

Information should be designed in a way that people actually use information: he invented the notion of hyper-text mark-up language and this was the beginning of web pages. 1993: release of mosaic: the first widely available web browser with a graphical user interface. 1994: first genuine search engines: alta vista, webcrawler. Google is the most famous search engine embodies everything we are looking for: however, google was not the first search engine. Designed by human beings and maintained by human beings. Yahoo directory: stayed for a long time, people gathered together websites they thought were useful and they would send it to yahoo yahoo would then classify them. Dmoz open directory: this one still remains, was the (cid:271)asis fo(cid:396) google(cid:859)s di(cid:396)e(cid:272)to(cid:396)(cid:455) It(cid:859)s a (cid:448)olu(cid:374)tee(cid:396) thi(cid:374)g people voluntarily contribute websites they think is useful. Systems whereby automated agents locate and index web sites through hyperlinks. Crawler: the program that finds the web pages.