Special Edition Using XML, Second Edition

The Internet as Global Storage for Information

The Internet is a collection of computer systems that communicate with each other in various protocols. Each of these computer systems contain documents that, in the form of HTML pages, can be easily distributed to other computers. These documents are also indexed by many modern search engines and by earlier systems such as the Wide Area Information Servers (WAIS). A number of initiatives exist to classify data to make the information more meaningful. The Internet can be thought of as the largest document repository in the world: a repository that users can leverage for themselves.

Problems of Indexing and Searching the Global Network

A number of problems exist with searching and indexing the content ...