http://www.stir.ac.uk/jsbin/jsii (World Wide Web Directory, 06/1995)The JumpStation relies upon a Robot for it's data acquisition. See the Robot page for more details.
Take a look at the news
and history
pages. They tend to follow the times, but get there eventually.
Instructions
The JumpStation offers WWW users a variety of document and server
database searches.
The primary method of searching is through the Document database. The Document database allows interactive searching of documents by title, header, and subject.
Also available is the ability to find servers, given a partial address. The search for servers can include wildcards and is very useful for re-discovering partially remembered URLs.
Still to come is the URL Scanner. This will give the ability to scan through the huge number of URLs that the JumpStation Robot has collected, looking for URLs containing the search value.
WWPing is also available through the JumpStation. WWPing offers the ability
to identify and check the state of internet sites and WWW Servers.
The Document Search
The JumpStation II
Document Search enables the JumpStation Document database
to be searched by any combination of title, header and subject word.
The Server Scanner
The JumpStation II
Server Scanner enables the JumpStation server
database to be searched by a partial server address, with wildcards.
The URL Scanner
[The "URL Scanner" is still under developments. A link to it will appear
here once it is completed]
Adding a Server
The capability to
add a server to the search engine is still in beta-testing.
Please use it to send urls and sites that you would like to be included
in the database but which the robot has not yet visited.
WWPing
WWPing is a
form for "pinging" WWW Servers.
It can be used to for simple internet pinging, and for HTTP pinging,
with server identification.
Contacting the Author
I'm interested in hearing from people who use the JumpStation to help
navigate the World-Wide Web.
Please email me with comments or critisisms you may have of the
JumpStation. My email address is shown at the bottom of this page.