Searching the World-Wide Web Using Signature Files
Justin Sun, James Mayfield · 1995
A problem conamonly faced by users of the World-Wide Web (WWW) is forgetting the path traversed to reach a previously read document. SWISS (Seeking World-Wide Web Information Using a Signature File Search) is a system designed to al-leviate this ’lost document problem ’ by incrementally saving the contents of vis-ited documents in a signature file index. SWISS allows the user to retrieve a previ-ously read document via keyword search. Advantages of the system include parsi-monious use of resources, capability for search on the entire text of indexed doc-uments, and browser independence. 1