Searchable access relied on Wide Area Information Service (WAIS), a sophisticated and free full-text search system with relevancy ranking developed by Brewster Kahle (1992) at Thinking Machines Corporation.
What does WAIS stand for?
WAIS stands for Wide Area Information Service
This definition appears frequently and is found in the following Acronym Finder categories:
- Information technology (IT) and computers
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We have 44 other meanings of WAIS in our Acronym Attic
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Samples in periodicals archive:
SLIP: Serial Line Internet Protocol: one form of Internet connection SPIDER: indexing software that contains a search engine, a related database, and a document-retrieval system TCP/IP: Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol - the main form of communicating on the net TELECOMMUTING: conducting work at home using a computer URL: Uniform Resource Locator - the address used to locate a particular document VERONICA: used with GOPHER to locate information on the net VIRTUAL COMMUNITY: another term for the Internet VOICE MAIL: a means of storing verbal messages on a computer disk WAIS: Wide Area Information Service - a tool contained in net databases used to locate information on the web WWW or [W.