Interesting comments from the FAQ regarding resource discovery:
May...1992...
"By the way, it would be easy in principle for a third party to run over these [hyperlink] trees and make indexes of what they find. Its just that noone has done it as far as I know because there isn't yet an indexer which runs over the web directly."
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"In the long term, when there is a really large mass of data out there, with deep interconnections, then there is some really exciting work to be done on automatic algorithms to make multi-level searches."
Altavista came out in 1995, Google Search 2 years later.
May...1992...
"By the way, it would be easy in principle for a third party to run over these [hyperlink] trees and make indexes of what they find. Its just that noone has done it as far as I know because there isn't yet an indexer which runs over the web directly."
...
"In the long term, when there is a really large mass of data out there, with deep interconnections, then there is some really exciting work to be done on automatic algorithms to make multi-level searches."
Altavista came out in 1995, Google Search 2 years later.