Pinning down the fleeting Internet: Web crawler archives historical data for easy searching

Monday, November 17, 2008 - 16:56 in Mathematics & Economics

(PHysOrg.com) -- 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.

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