Wide Area Index System. A means for indexing and searching WWW documents.

ide rea nformation erver, a distributed system that lets you retrieve large amounts of information using keywords.

ide rea nformation ervers: a distributed information retrieval system. Clients are able to retrieve documents using keywords. The search returns a list of documents, ranked according to the frequency of occurrence of the keyword(s) used in the search. The client can retrieve text or multimedia documents stored on the server. WAIS offers natural language input, indexed searching for fast retrieval, and a "relevance feedback" mechanism which lets the results of initial searches influence future searches.

(Wide Area Information Servers) A distributed information system designed by Brewster Kahle while at Thinking Machines. WAIS was like a Web of search engines, but without hypertext. @.

A WAIS is an old Internet search system. WAIS servers may be accessed by Web browsers.

A search engine and distributed information service that allows indexed searching and natural language input.

Wide Area Information Servers. An Internet protocol which facilitates the transmission of large information data bases.

ide rea nformation erver] A database on the Internet that contains indexes to documents that reside on the Internet.

Wide Area Information System. A query system designed by Thinking Machines. Many Web browsers can query WAIS databases, and thereby do full-text searches on a variety of information.

A software system used to search indexed databases on remote servers,WAIS returns a ranked list of pages or files that you can retrieve from the server.

ide rea nformation ervers. Searches large indexes of information on the Internet.

An kind of online database that many Web Browsers can access. To top

A system that lets you search specific libraries for documents that contain the information you're looking for.

A distributed information service which offers natural language input and indexed searching of large databases of information from remote systems.

ide rea nformation erver. Client-server software providing searching of and retrieval from various databases. Based on Z39.50 protocols and developed by Thinking Machines, Inc.

Wais is an internet information database service that makes finding information easier when using a web sites internal search engine.

Wide Area Information Servers. A system that lets you search for documents that contain specific information that you are looking for.

Stands for "Wide Area Information Server." This is a program that can index ...

Wide Area Information Server. Pronounced "ways"; acronym for UNIX-based systems linked to Internet, a program that permits the user to search worldwide Internet archives for resources based on a series of key words.

Supports searching over the Internet.

(Wide Area Information Server) A database on the Internet that contains indexes to documents that reside on the Internet. Using the Z39.50 query language, text files can be searched based on key words.

ide rea nformation erver. The electronic equivalent of a library.

Wide-Area Information Server. WAIS is a specialized Internet client/server system for researching information in Internet databases.

Wide Area Information Server (IETF)

Wide Area Information Server. Systems for searching huge distributed database servers across a network, usually the Internet. WAIS allows you to perform a keyword search; it is analogous to an index, whereas Gopher, which is sometimes used as a complement to WAIS, is analogous to a table of contents.

Wide Area Information Servers (WAIS) A distributed information retrieval system. (FOLDC)

(Wide Area Information Servers) -- A commercial software package that allows the indexing of huge quantities of information and then making those indices searchable across networks such as the Internet. A prominent feature of WAIS is that the search results are ranked (scored) according to how relevant the hits are to your topic. Subsequent inquiries can refine the search process until you've discovered what you are looking for through the WAIS.

Wide-area information server, a standard for indexed full-text retrieval via the Internet.

wide area information server. A network publishing system designed to help users find information over a computer network. WAIS software has four main components: the client, the server, the database, and the protocol. Discussed in RFC 1625.

Wide Area Information Server, for indexing and accessing great quantities of information on the Net. Often an adjunct to Gopher.

Wide Area Information Server; a program that can search dozens of databases in one search.

protocol for database search.

A distributed information service which offers simple natural language input, indexed searching for fast retrieval and a "relevance feedback" mechanism which allows the results of initial searches to influence future searches. Public domain implementations are available. See also Archie, Gopher, Veronica.

(Wide Area Information Server) A database of databases. One of the first programs based on the Z39.50 standard. A network information system allowing for full-text document searching independent of hardware and software differences.

Wide Area Information Server. WAIS is a database technology that lets Internet users search through the actual contents of documents stored on WAIS servers, rather than searching for file names or menu entries. Think of WAIS as the index of a book, rather than the table of contents.

Wide Area Information Server. A system for searching and retrieving items from databases, where the databases can be anywhere on the Internet

Wide Area Information Servers. A distributed information retrieval system. WAIS offers natural language input, indexed searching, and a "relevance feedback" mechanism that allows current search results to influence future search results.

ide rea nformation ervers are commercial programs which indexes a tremendous amount of data and making those indices searchable across networks such as the Internet. Internet. WAIS search results are ranked as well.

(Wide Area Information Servers) a system that indexes large amounts of information and makes the indexes searchable by keyword. Webmaster/Web Goddess—the person who creates and maintains a site on the World Wide Web.

Wide Area Information Server, originally developed using Z39.50, allowing client-server searching over the Internet, first of a collection of sources and then of actually information collections, usually involving a vector-space type search, often with relevance feedback

Wide Area Information Server is the oldest and by now obsolete search system for information on the internet. Before starting a full text search with the actual key words, you have to select the data sources to be searched from a long list of databases and document collections.

A distributed information service and search engine that allows natural language input and indexed searching. Many Web search utilities use a WAIS engine. (8/97)

Wide Area Information Server - a computer system that searches databases for documents.

Wide Area Information Server. A software system intended to search large database servers on the Web, and then rank the findings or hits.

Wide Area Information Server, an index and retrieval system; when you enter a keyword, a search is performed on indexed documents, which can then be retrieved

Wide Area Information Server. WAIS is best at searches for various sources of academic information that has been indexed based on content. Its indexes consist of every word in a document and each word carries the same weight in a search.

Acronym for Wide Area Information Server. Was early type search engine without use of hypertext.

Wide-Area Information Search is another program for zeroing in on information hidden inside Gopherspace. You give WAIS a search word and it scans the Net looking for places where your search word is mentioned. When you start a WAIS, the program will give you a list of which databases you can search. You can select one or more databases for your search. WAIS will then give you a menu of documents, each ranked according to which document best fits your criteria. A "score" of 1,000 is given to the document that contains the most occurrences of your search word. A document with a score of 500 would contain only half as many occurrences. Another definition: A method for searching databases over the Internet. WAIS was once trumpeted as the next big thing on the Internet, but has not lived up to the promise. Free versions of WAIS servers and clients are hard to use, and few sites run easier-to-use commercial versions. Many Gopher and World Wide Web sites use WAIS to search just within those sites.

Wide Area Information Servers – A search engine used to find texts on the Internet, it uses keywords to search the entire document rather than only the titles.

Pronounced "ways", an abbreviation for Wide Area Information Server. A system which allows you to search over 400 WAIS databases located throughout the Internet for information.

(Web Area Information Servers). A system for searching through the contents of indexed documents on the internet.

An acronym for Wide Area Information System which basically means lots of large databases you can search through. It was designed by WAIS Corp. as a way of accessing very large databases.

Wide Area Information Servers. A network of servers that allow access to a large quantity of information on remote databases and are managed by a central location of directory servers.

Wide Area Information Server (WAIS). An indexing system for documents that indexes the full text of the documents, and scores searches on the basis of the relevance of its vocabulary to the search terms. See History.

client/server tool for searching online databases

Wide Area Information Servers - a system of searchable text databases.

Wide Area Information Server, a database. A tool that helps you search for documents using keywords or selections of text as search criteria. A powerful system for searching and retrieving information from databases scattered across the Internet.

Wide area information server. Contains specific algorithms for searching free text.

Wide Area Information Server Internet public database text searching.

Wide Area Information Servers. It is a system for organising information so that natural language queries can be made against indexes of databases to retrieve resources. You can search the WAIS Directory of Servers for specific Terms. A "relevance feedback" mechanism allows the results of initial searches to influence future searches. Public domain implementations are available. See also: archie, Gopher.

A network information system that enables clients to search documents on the World Wide Web.

see Wide Area Information Server.

Wide Area Information Server - for accessing databases.

Wide Area Information Servers - Wide Area Information Servers [WAIS] index each word in every readable file and provide the means to make the index available for query, process queries and deliver results

Stands for Wide Area Information Servers. Searches large indexes of information on the Internet.

Wide Area Information Servers, a searchable group of full-text databases.

(Wide Area Information Servers) (ways) Using keywords supplied by the user, WAIS servers search their databases for any files which contain a match. WAIS goes beyond Gopher, FTP, and Archie searches, but is somewhat similar to WebCrawler.

Refers to Wide Area Information System.

Wide Area Information Servers. WAIS allows users to search and access different types of information from a single interface. The WAIS protocol is an extension of the ANSI Z39.50 information retrieval protocol.

Wide Area Information Service.

(Wide Area Information Search) Software that is used to index large text files in servers. On the client side, it finds and retrieves documents in databases, based on user defined words.

(Wide Area Information Servers) an architecture for a distributed information retrieval system. WAIS is based on the client-server model of computation, and allows users of computers to share information using a common computer-to-computer protocol.

(Wide Area Information Servers) Developed in the early 1990s WAIS was the first truly large-scale system to allow the indexing of huge quantities of information on the Web, and to make those indices searchable across networks such as the Internet. WAIS was also pioneering in its use of ranked (scored) results where the software tries to determine how relevant each result it.

(Wide Area Information Servers) - A commercial software package that allows the indexing of huge quantities of information, then makes those indices searchable across networks and the Internet. A prominent feature of WAIS is the ranking (scoring) of the search results, according to how relevant the hits are. See Also: Search Engine

WAIS, pronounced "ways," search for data through online gopher databases. Unless you are looking for scientific or technical information, look somewhere else.

Wide Area Information Server. A commercial indexing tool for keyword searches of text documents on the Internet and other WANs.

Wide Area Information Server. A method for putting database information on-line for access across the Internet.

Wide Area Information Server. A client-server information system that let's users search through databases with a single user interface.

Wide Area Information Server A method of putting a searchable user interface on a tremendous amount of information. This was developed back in the days of a textual internet, and has since been replaced by the World-Wide-Web and a standard database interface called SQL.

Wide Area Information Server. A predecessor of the Internet search engines of today.

Wide Area Information Server. Searches the indexed contents of Internet documents.

Wide Area Information Servers These servers allow users to conduct full-text keyword searches in documents, databases, and libraries connected to the Internet. Pronounced 'Ways'.

(Wide Area Information Servers) -- Sophisticated indexing and search tool for full-text databases.

An information retrieval tool which allows users to search collections of documents stored on-line. "Keywords" are typed into the search form and documents which contain those words are listed on the screen. In past years, on-line libraries often included WAIS search tools for locating documents of interest. Andy realized that many of the old WAIS searching facilities on the Internet had been replaced by modern search engines on the World Wide Web such as Alta Vista and InfoSeek.

Wide Area Information Server; a program for finding documents on the Internet. Usually found on gopher servers to enable searching text-based documents for a particular keyword.

(Wide Area Information Servers) -- A commercial software package that allows the indexing of huge quantities of information, and then making those indices searchable across networks such as the Internet . A prominent feature of WAIS is that the search results are ranked ("scored") according to how relevant the "hits" are, and that subsequent searches can find "more stuff like that last batch" and thus refine the search process. Back to About HIP

Wide-Area Information Servers; a very powerful system for locating information in databases across the Internet.

Wide Area Information Servers is a system that lets you search for documents that contain the information you're looking for.

(n.) Wide Area Information Server.

Wide Area Information Servers. A set of full-text databases containing information on hundreds of topics. You can search WAIS using natural-language queries and use relevance feedback to refine your search.

Wide-Area Information Server. A client/server software system that provides sophisticated indexing of files based on all words in each file and provides scoring and "relevance feedback" of documents to its client. The client then selects which file or files to retrieve from the server from a list of file or document titles, ranked by a score assigned by the software. Searching can include Boolean constructs and access to structured information systems (like databases) through its compliance with ANSI standard Z39.50. WAIS is addressed at the operating system level.

From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" ( 1999-07-23) A distributed information system designed by Brewster Kahle while at Thinking Machines. WAIS was like a Web of search engines, but without hypertext. @.

Wide Area Information Server, an automated Internet search that allows users to locate documents containing key words or phrases.

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Wide Area Information Servers based on the Z39.50 protocol for Internet-accessible databases.

ide rea nformation ervers WAIS is a software program where documents in full text databases can be searched, viewed, printed, and sent as electronic mail.

Distributed information retrieval system that allows you to search huge amounts of information using keywords.

Wide Area Information Servers, a system and protocol for Internet accessible databases. The WAIS protocol is based on the Z39.50 protocol.