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) 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 s [..]

 (Web Area Information Servers). A system

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 ter [..]

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Acronym for Wide Area Information Servers. A distributed text searching system that uses the protocol standard ANS Z39.50 to search index databases on remote computers. Note 1: WAIS libraries are most often found on the Internet. Note 2: WAIS allows users to discover and access information resources on the network without regard to their physical l [..]

Stands for "Wide Area Information Server." This is a program that can index enormous amounts of information and make it searchable across large networks (including the Internet). People can [..]

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

Short for Wide Area Information Server, and pronounced ways, a program for finding documents on the Internet. WAIS is rather primitive in its search capabilities.

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. By today's standards, this is rather primitive in capability.

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 Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, a comprehensive test of cognitive ability for adults.

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

An acronym for Wide Area Information Servers, WAIS is a network information retrieval service that you can use to search for keywords or phrases in specially indexed files. Unlike Gopher, which search [..]

Wide Area Information Servers. Software that retrieves information from networks. The user enters the subject and the networks or resources you want to search through. Then WAIS searches through docum [..]

Internet WAIS (Wide Area Information Server), a predecessor to HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol). HTTP

Wide-Area Information Servers-a commercial software package that allows a user to index huge quantities of information and then make 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. Subsequent searches can find more stuff [..]

The abbreviation for Wide Area Information Service, WAIS is a Net-wide system for looking up specific information in Internet databases.  

See: Wide Area Information Servers.

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’.

A primitive program for locating files on the Internet.

Wide Area Information Server. A search engine developed by Thinking Machines, Inc., which can find documents on the Internet. WAIS uses keywords to search text files, and can search the entire content [..]

An early version of Z39.50, used in digital libraries before the web, now largely obsolete.

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