Re: WebCrawler & Excite

Otis Gospodnetic (otisg@panther.middlebury.edu)
Wed, 4 Dec 1996 12:18:33 -0500 (EST)

>
> Otis Gospodnetic:
> >
> >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 ?
> >
>
> That was Brian Pinkerton and his WebCrawler.
> Don't know the amount.

wait, I'm confused now. I've heard of Brian Pinkerton, but I thought he
bought something else, like World Wide Web Worm or something like that, no ?
What did Martijn Koster write then ? I thought WebCrawler was designed and
implemented by him....no ?

Thanks.

Otis
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