Re: WebCrawler & Excite

Otis Gospodnetic (otisg@panther.middlebury.edu)
Wed, 4 Dec 1996 01:37:29 -0500 (EST)


wow, interesting.

on a related note - I heard that AOL bought some guy (a student?) and his
Thesis work (algorithms in it), for $1.5 M. Supposedly the Thesis was about
robots/spiders/crawlers....

Is that true ? Anyone knows details ?

Otis

>
> At 09:59 PM 12/3/96 -0500, you wrote:
> >Sorry if this is a bit off topic, but I just heard a rumor that WebCrawler
> >will soon be bought by Excite......
>
> Already happened. AOL shut down GNN and I think this is a related event.
> AOL also increased its investment in Excite, so one might look at this as
> AOL paying Excite to take WebCrawler... ;-)
>
> Webcrawlers, do I have that right?
>
> Nick
>
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