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.