“Seriously, I don't need Rogaine or Viagra. Take me off of your email list NOW!!!”
[1]A “web crawler”, spider or bot may be used to pinpoint email addresses off of websites, among other functions. Also a “spambot” actually sends out the junk email, by using made-up email addresses or going so far as to hack into legitimate ones[2] …
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'90s Tech Icons: Where Are They Now?
Then came WebCrawler, the first “full-text” search engine. The service enabled keyword search among its 4000 indexed webpages, and set a standard that is still the norm today. WebCrawler launched in April 1994 as a spare-time project of University of …
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Sorry Google, I don't Want Your Answers
That was key; every other search engine (remember Webcrawler?) relied on what webmasters put in special tags. The system was easily abused as webmasters stuffed keywords in order to get on top of search results. Often a page that would show up in …
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