Possible Solutions for Drawbacks of World Wide Web

World Wide Web for Crystallography

Some characteristics of the World Wide Web (WWW) and its Virtual Library (W3VL) are described. Aspects of the setting up, maintenance, future development and objectives of the World Wide Web Virtual Library: Crystallography are detailed. An overview of the successful use of WWW in the organisation of two crystallographic conferences and one entirely electronic conference is given. A revolution ...

Searching the World Wide Web: Challenges and Partial Solutions

In this article we analyze the problem of searching the WWW, giving some insight and models to understand its complexity. Then we survey the two main current techniques used to search the WWW. Finally, we present recent results that can help to partially solve the challenges posed.

World-Wide Web Survey Research: Benefits, Potential Problems, and Solutions

The World-Wide Web presents survey researchers with an unprecedented tool for the collection of data. The costs in terms of both time and money for publishing a survey on the web are low compared w ith costs associated wi th conventional surveying methods. The data entry stage is eliminated for the survey administrator, and software can ensure that the data acqui red f rom participants is free ...

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World-Wide Web Proxies

A WWW proxy server, proxy for short, provides access to the Web for people on closed subnets who can only access the Internet through a firewall machine. The hypertext server developed at CERN, cern_httpd, is capable of running as a proxy, providing seamless external access to HTTP, Gopher, WAIS and FTP. cern_httpd has had gateway features for a long time, but only this spring they were extende...